Jessica has a broad practice across all areas of real estate disputes, and has extensive experience managing complex and high-value cases at all levels of the court system and in specialist tribunals. She advises landlords, developers, occupiers and funders in the real estate sector on a wide range of contentious property matters, including landlord and tenant issues, asset management queries, sale and purchase disputes, development constraints and joint venture disputes.

Jessica also has significant experience in specialist areas of property litigation. She works with developers to prepare and implement rights of light risk mitigation strategies and defending injunction claims brought by neighbours. She regularly advises site providers on matters related to telecoms, including termination and removal of apparatus and access requests from operators.

Jessica acted for one of the successful respondents (Tesco) in the Supreme Court case of Cardtronics & ors v Sykes (VO) [2020] UKSC 21, relating to the separate assessment of ATM sites in food stores for business rates. Jessica was involved before the first instance hearing in the Valuation Tribunal, and she continued to act on the case throughout the two appeals to the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) and the Court of Appeal, before the hearing in the Supreme Court. She also acted for the successful respondent in Jackson (VO) v Canary Wharf Limited [2019] UKUT 136 (LC), which clarified the rateability of floors of a tower building undergoing redevelopment.

Jessica is a member of the Property Litigation Association and sits on the committee for the Real Estate Balance Parents’ Network.