Roger Evans

Roger is a civil law specialist and his expertise includes:

• Property law, including minerals & mining, commons, town and village greens, enclosures & manors; landlord & tenant, commercial & residential; the laws of the Forest of Dean (especially property, mining and forestry); easements and boundaries; trusts of land; highways; markets; agricultural law; negligence relating to conveyancing.
• Wills, probate and administration of estates.
• Court of Protection, powers of attorney, mental capacity issues.
• Ecclesiastical law, including clergy discipline and Human Rights, lay rectories, burial grounds.
• Local government and public law, including powers/duties of Ministers/public bodies/local councils/councillors (including the Code of Conduct)/officials; planning, environment, highways, street trading, housing, housing benefit, gypsies, land acquisition and markets.
• Election law and political parties.
• Banking law, including securities, mortgages, guarantees and indemnities.
• Contracts, including share sale warranties; computer contracts.
• Partnerships and companies, including directors’ obligations; Building Societies, Friendly Societies, Industrial and Provident Societies and Co-operative & Community Benefit Societies; Charities and unincorporated associations; communes.
• Professional negligence relating to lawyers, accountants, brokers, financial advisers, valuers and surveyors.

Notable Civil Law & Other Areas of Expertise cases