Christopher Cant

Christopher acts across a wide span of property, chancery, and related commercial work, including:

• Land & property transactions, development agreements, and structuring

• Easements, restrictive covenants, rights-of-way and boundary disputes

• Enforcement of charges, guarantees, and security interests

• Leases, lease renewals, assignments, repairs obligations

• Adverse possession claims and title acquisition matters

• Overages, planning promotion agreements, and agricultural land deals

• Trusts, wills, charities, partnership and company work in a chancery context

• Professional negligence, non-contentious advice and drafting

Christopher Cant’s career spans more than five decades, built on a foundation of technical mastery, doctrinal insight, and versatility across property, equity, and commercial law.

Property & Development Practice

• His non-contentious work includes advising on refinancing, portfolio restructuring, restrictive covenants, Sharia-compliant leases, planning promotion agreements, and overage mechanisms

• He drafts bespoke agreements for development, site conveyancing, and pre-completion works strategies

• Works on both large-scale schemes (retail, residential developments) and smaller residential or mixed-use holdings

Contested Property & Chancery Disputes

• Handles boundary, access, and easement conflicts, covenant enforcement, and dispute over assured rights

• Acts in applications to register rights, oppose highway claims, or resolve path-width and rights-of-way issues

• Experienced in adverse possession claims to registered land

• Notable case work includes challenges under Insolvency Act section 423 and High Court covenant disputes in Chancery Division

Chancery, Trusts & Related Work

• Widely practised in trusts, wills, charities, partnership, and company law in a chancery context

• Acts in both contentious and advisory roles, combining his equity knowledge with property insight

• Works with local authorities, institutions, and private clients on governance, drafting, and dispute resolution

Approach & Reputation

• Renowned for tackling highly technical and complex issues with patience and clarity

• Clients value his precise drafting, foresight in structuring, and persuasive advocacy

• His long history gives him perspective on evolving legal doctrines in property and equity

• He blends academic excellence with a practical, problem-solving mindset

•  Called to the Bar in 1973