Jonathan Eales

Department: Civil Litigation

Location: King Street, King's Lynn

Email: jeales@kennethbush.com

BA Honours Law solicitor admitted 1983. Jonathan is head of the Department. He has been a litigator for the last 17 years and has enormous experience and is widely recognised as a skilful, aggressive, and successful litigator.

Jonathan is first and foremost a ferocious advocate, conducting all his own Trials and some others within the Department personally. Jonathan's reputation as a quality advocate has brought him to the position as a Prosecutor for the Norfolk RSPCA, a position he of proud to hold.

Additionally, Jonathan is a skilled and clever (some would say crafty) negotiator, often rescuing clients from what might otherwise have been, disastrous situations.

Jonathan has broad depth of legal expertise:-

Company & Commercial Matters Contract Disputes Building Disputes Nuisance & Trespass Actions against the Police

Land & Boundary Disputes Wills & Probate Disputes Inheritance Act Claims Professional Negligence (especially involving Surveyors & Accountants) Speeding Offences

Recent reported cases include :

Clarke and Clarke -v- Nationwide Building Society : Court of Appeal LTL 17.3.98 and 1998 EGCS 47 Civil Procedure : Professional Surveyor Negligence :Contract Accord and Satisfaction : Gesture of Goodwill : Full and Final Settlement

R.W. Peak -v- R. W. Peak (King's Lynn) Ltd. Chancery Division, Companies Court LTL 9.10.98 and 1998 1 BCLC 193 and 1998 BCC 596 Company purchase of own shares : Validity of Share Purchase Agreement : Statutory Requirements Exceptions : Duomatic Principle : Written Procedure : Rectification of Register of Members

Palmer -v- Bowman Court of Appeal LTL 14.10.99 and TLR 10.11.99. Land Boundary Dispute : Easements by way of Prescription : Lost Modern Grant : Abandonment of Easements : Land Drainage on Agricultural Land : Hedge and Ditch Presumption : Adverse Possession.

Payne and others v John Setchell Ltd Negligence - Duty to take care - Economic loss - Building - Defect in building - Claimants subsequently acquiring defective buildings - Whether claimants acquiring fresh causes of action upon purchase - Whether claims time-bared - Latent Damage Act 1986, s 3; Limitation Act 1980, s 14A; Defective Act 1972, s 1.

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