Gemma Staddon

Gemma is a solicitor in the commercial and private client litigation team, specialising in agricultural and property litigation.

How Gemma can help you

Gemma advises clients in the commercial and agricultural sectors on contentious property matters relating to:

• Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 tenancies and Farm Business Tenancies (including Notices to Quit, succession and breaches of covenant)
• Farming partnerships
• Proprietary estoppel
• Arbitration, including challenging of awards
• Possession proceedings
• Boundary disputes
• Easements – including rights of way
• Adverse possession
• Land drainage and flooding

Gemma also defends and brings claims:

• Under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975
• Contesting the validity of Wills (due to lack of testamentary capacity and/or want of knowledge and approval)
• Against executors and trustees for breach of trust/maladministration

Against solicitors in relation to Will drafting and the construction of Wills or mistakes in Wills.

Experience

Gemma has experience in litigating cases to trial and arbitration, as well as resolving disputes through settlement negotiations and mediations.

• Windsor-Clive v Rees [2021] EWHC 3180 (Ch): proprietary estoppel
• O G Thomas Amaethyddiath v Turner & Ors [2022] EWCA Civ 1446: validity of a notice to quit under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986
• Cobden v Cobden [2024] EWHC 1581 (Ch): application for a Syers Order to buy out a partner’s share on the dissolution of a 50/50 farming partnership – The New World of Farming Partnerships
• Osler v Osler [2024] EWCA Civ 516:  appealing an arbitrator’s award under section 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996
• Cobden v Cobden [2025] EWCA Civ 1612: the Court’s approach on the dissolution of a partnership