George Branchflower specialises in property, commercial and employment disputes, appearing in the County Court and High Court, Employment Tribunal, Reserve Forces Appeal Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal. His 10 years in business before being called to the Bar gives him extra insight into the commercial world.

Areas of Expertise

• Land and rights over land – easements, restrictive covenants, boundary disputes, legal and equitable interests, adverse possession, trespass, nuisance
• Employment Law – all forms of discrimination, unfair and wrongful dismissal; working time, redundancy, wages, whistle blowing
• Chancery & Common Law - sale of land, mortgages, undue influence, constructive and resulting trusts, commercial contract, restitutionary claims, construction, commercial landlord & tenant.

George also sits as a Deputy District Judge in the Civil Courts.

Notable Cases

• Advising and appearing on an appeal concerning the chargeability of VAT on the transfer of land, raising estoppel and misrepresentation
• Regularly instructed by the Treasury Solicitor to represent various respondent government departments and state agencies in employment and other disputes
• Advising and appearing for defendant in a claim by a local authority for restitution of money paid under a mistake of fact
• Representing claimant in an action in deceit concerning the exercise of an option to purchase land
• Advising on the impact of various pre- and post-1925 restrictive covenants (both known and unknown) on a proposed multi-million pound development
• Advising and appearing in numerous cases involving claims for adverse possession and easements acquired by prescription
• Advising on an appeal to the House of Lords on the issue of sub-subrogation to an unpaid vendor's lien
• Allen v George and anor [2004] EWCA Civ 396 (CA)
• Advising government department on lawfulness of its proposed email interception policy
• Representing mortgagee whose possession claim was defended on the basis of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995

• Junior Counsel to the Crown, Region 3, Legal 500 (2009,2008,2007 & 2006 editions)
• Lincoln's Inn – Hardwicke Scholarship, two Sir Thomas More Bursaries

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• Call: 1997