Jacqueline Smart

Specialisms:

Chancery Law, both advisory work and litigation (including Land Registry Adjudications). Also member of Chambers' Business, Agriculture and Mental Health Groups. Jacqueline has a specialist interest in the following:-

• Land law including restrictive covenants, easements, rights of way, sale of land
• Equity and trusts including constructive trusts and proprietary estoppel
• Wills, succession, administration of estates and family provision claims
• Landlord and tenant
• Partnership
• Professional negligence in chancery related matters

Appointments:

Deputy District Judge 2002

Memberships:

Chancery Bar Association
Northern Chancery Bar Association
Bar Pro Bono Unit
Middle Temple

Lectures & Seminars:

• 2009 “Proprietary Estoppel – There is a Limit” (as part of the Chancery and Commercial Seminar at Sunderland, Teesside, Carlisle and Newcastle),
• 2008 Tees Valley Law Society Seminar “A Trust In The Family – Practical And Conveyancing Implications” (Constructive Trusts in the context of cohabitees and family members).
• 2004 “Securing Provision from an Estate – Aiming at the Right Target”, topics “The Substantial Validity of Wills, and “Family Provision” (Teesside and Newcastle).
• 2001 “Benefit Of Land Covenants - Contracts (Rights Of Third Parties Acts) 1999” and “Lands Tribunal Applications“ as part of Seminar on Restrictive Covenants (Carlisle and Whitehaven).

Education & Awards:

LLB King’s College London

Additional Information:

Since 2000 - Member of Legal Services Commission Funding Review Panel (adjudicating on appeals from refusal of public funding);
2007-8, 2008-9, 2009-10.

Teaching part-time on BVC at Northumbria University including Chancery option.