The Legal 500 has commented that clients seek out Wayne for “QC level advice”.
Wayne is known for his vast legal experience and knowledge and has been said to be a “prolific writer” of leading works in his field. He is also known to be very skilled and effective at cross examining experts of any discipline. Wayne provides an immense amount of advisory work in addition to his litigation practice
His practice embraces all aspects of real property law, although principally relating to commercial property disputes. In particular:
- He is well known for his advice on business tenancies of which he is the co-author with Kirk Reynolds QC of the leading work, Renewal of Business Tenancies Law and Practice 5th ed (December 2016).
- Wayne is a leading light on the telecoms code, his seminal paper as part of the Blundell Lecture series in 2011 on the old telecoms code being cited at length in the Law Commission’s consultation paper which ultimately led to the implementation of the New Code in 2017. He has collaborated with several others in Chambers to author the forthcoming (Summer 2018) work on the New Code.
- He also undertakes both mortgage and receivership related work, particularly with respect to priority disputes, being the editor of the well-known and established book on mortgages, Fisher and Lightwood’s Law of Mortgage, 14th ed (2014).
- Wayne’s practice also covers easements (including rights of light disputes) and restrictive covenant disputes with respect to their interpretation, enforcement and their modification or discharge.
- vendor and purchaser disputes
- land registration, including: registered dispositions; priorities, notices and restrictions; alteration and rectification of the register
- rent reviews
- dilapidations
- tenants’ rights of first refusal (of which, again, Wayne is a co-author of yet another leading work in the field, Tenants’ Rights of First Refusal, with Anthony Radevsky of Chambers) (3rd edition, 2017)
- enfranchisement work,
- He undertakes a substantial amount of work on development, joint venture and overage agreements,
- property related professional negligence and SDLT