Cavell Leitch

Resolve property conflicts with confidence

Cavell Leitch has extensive experience in property disputes, being property focused since our firm’s inception in 1923.

Trusted legal guidance for commercial and personal property matters

Our dispute resolution team operates on a national level and partners with clients and our wider property team to deliver solutions across a range of matters.

Interesting legal conundrums arise within all areas of property law giving rise to disputes and where required, court proceedings.

Our dispute resolution team has extensive experience in a range of property related litigation including:

  • Acting for landlords and tenants in commercial and residential disputes

  • Court applications for relief against cancellation of commercial leases (forfeiture), recovery of debt and actions for possession

  • Maori land regulatory matters and Court applications relating to Maori reservation land

  • Sustaining and challenging caveats

  • Charging orders and writs of sale

  • Abandoned land applications and rating sales

  • Mortgagee sales

  • Applications for declarations as to legal interests in land, modification of easements and covenants

  • Property Law Act applications

  • Contractual disputes over the sale of land

Our experts

Don’t hesitate to reach out to the team directly or if you’re not sure who best to contact, reach out to us via our contact us page.

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Facing a property conflict? Contact our legal team for expert guidance and effective resolution of your property disputes.