Natalie Pratt

Natalie specialises in injunction proceedings generally, and especially against persons unknown. She has experience, both led and un-led, of without notice hearings, return date hearings, directions hearings, final hearings/trials and contempt applications, including (but not limited to) in the following cases. 

Protest injunctions 

• Teledyne UK Limited v Gao & Ors [2025] EWHC 2050 (KB); [2024] EWHC 3538 (KB) 

• MBR Acres Ltd & Ors v Curtin [2025] EWHC 331 (KB); [2021] EWHC 2996 (QB) 

• Thurrock Council & Anr v Adams & Ors [2024] EWHC 2576 (KB); [2024] EWHC 2750 (KB); and [2022] EWHC 1324 (KB) 
• Arla Foods Limited & Anr v Persons Unknown & Ors [2025] 7 WLUK 442; [2024] EWHC 1952 (Ch) 

‘Traveller injunctions’  

• Surrey County Council v Persons Unknown [2026] EWHC 188 (KB) 

• Rochdale MBC v Heron & Ors [2024] EWHC 1653 (KB); [2025] EWHC 1314 (KB) 

• Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council v Corcoran & Ors [2024] EWHC 3961 (KB) 

• London Borough of Havering v Stokes & Ors [2024] EWHC 2496 (KB); [2025] EWHC 2603 (KB) 

• Test Valley BC v Bowers & Ors [2024] EWHC 1743 (KB) 

• Basingstoke & Deane BC v Loveridge [2024] EWHC 1828 (KB); [2025] EWHC 738 (KB) 

• Wolverhampton City Council & Ors v London Gypsies and Travellers & Ors [2023] UKSC 47 

• London Borough of Barking and Dagenham & Ors v Persons Unknown & Ors [2022] EWCA Civ 13 

• London Borough of Havering & Ors v Stokes & Ors [2021] EWCA Civ 1129 
• London Borough of Barking and Dagenham & Ors v Persons Unknown & Ors [2021] EWHC 1201 (QB)  

Other injunction proceedings 

Natalie has experience of injunction matters more generally, including: 

• Appearing for a local authority landowner seeking mandatory injunctive relief to reverse a trespass committed by building on the relevant land 

• Appearing successfully for fixed charge receivers to resist an application for an injunction restraining the imminent sale of a property 

• Obtaining mandatory injunctive relief to secure the removal of a porch that had been constructed in breach of a freehold covenant 

• London Borough of Barking and Dagenham v Gbadegesin [2023] EWHC 2371 (KB), obtaining a final injunction pursuant to the Local Government Act 1972, s222 to secure compliance with improvement notices served under the Housing Act 2004, ss11-12 

• Obtaining an injunction to secure the return of goods pursuant to the Torts (Interference with Goods) Act 1977 

Natalie has also appeared in contempt proceedings, both led and un-led, following alleged breaches of injunction orders, including in: 

• Teledyne UK Limited v Ensell & Wade [2025] EWHC 2164 (KB) 

• Fitzwilliam Land Company & Ors v Milton [2023] EWHC 3406 (KB) 

• MBR Acres Limited & Ors v Curtin [2025] EWHC 331 (KB) 

• Thurrock Council & Anr v Cook & Ors (2022)  

• MBR Acres Limited v Maher (aka Thibeault) & Anr [2022] EWHC 1123 (QB) 

• Brentwood Borough Council v Moran & Ors (2022)  

• Brentwood Borough Council v Ward & Ors (2022)  

Natalie has an academic background in property and trusts; she has a PhD on a property-related topic and lectured the law property and trusts before coming to the Bar. 

Natalie is instructed regularly in property related matters. Her recent work includes: 

• Contested claims for a new lease under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 

• Defending a claim for the rectification of a lease 

• Appearing in an application to the Upper Tribunal under the Law of Property Act 1925, s84 to modify or discharge restrictive covenants 

• The trial of a claim seeking the enforcement of a charging order, where a counterclaim of a common intention constructive trust and/or resulting trust was made 

• A claim seeking the unwinding of a tenancy agreement pursuant to the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, as amended by the Consumer Protection (Amendment) Regulations 2014 

• Advising on and appearing in injunction proceedings to restrain breaches of freehold covenants and trespasses 

• Advising on and appearing in service charge disputes (including Part 7 proceedings to recover unpaid service charge and First-tier Tribunal proceedings) 

• Advising on and drafting Part 8 proceedings seeking to compel the execution of transfer documents and/or seeking vesting orders 

• Various applications pursuant to the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 

• Lease forfeiture proceedings  

• Various other possession hearings, including proceedings against trespassers 

Natalie accepts instructions in wills, trusts and estate matters. Natalie’s recent work includes: 

• A mediation relating to an imperfect lifetime gift by a deceased  

• Advising on the presumption of due execution of a will 

• Drafting part 7 proceedings for the revocation of a grant of probate 

• Advising on the creation and validity of testamentary trusts  

• Drafting part 8 proceedings seeking vesting orders, directions as to the administration of an estate and the removal of an executor 

Natalie is experienced in charity litigation. In particular, she was instructed as sole counsel in:  

• The Knightland Foundation v Charity Commission of England and Wales [2021] UKFTT 0365 (GRC) (a four-day appeal to the First-tier Tribunal challenging the appointment of interim managers) 

• Judicial review proceedings, challenging the Charity Commission’s use of its power at the Charities Act 2011, s337(4)(b), and in which permission was granted on two of the four grounds of challenge 

• 2014 – 2020       PhD, King’s College London 
• 2016 – 2018    BPTC, BPP Law School (Outstanding) 
• 2012 – 2013       BCL, University of Oxford (subject prize in Advanced Property and Trusts) 
• 2009 – 2012       LLB Law (First Class Honours), University of Surrey 

• 2018 Buchanan Prize, Lincoln’s Inn 
• 2016 Lord Denning Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn 
• 2016 Hardwicke Entrance Award, Lincoln’s Inn 
• 2014 Subject prize in Advanced Property and Trusts, University of Oxford 

• The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
• Chancery Bar Association
• Property Bar Association

• ‘Enforcement of costs awards made in Environmental Protection Act 1990 proceedings’, Local Government Lawyer (15 January 2026) 
• ‘Wolverhampton Traveller injunctions – where are we now?’, Local Government Lawyer (28 November 2025) 
• ‘Direct-action protest – do you need to consider injunctive relief?’, Local Government Lawyer (6 June 2025) 
• ‘Annual reviews of Traveller injunctions’, Local Government Lawyer (1 May 2025) 
• ‘Recreation easements after Regency Villas Title Ltd and others v Diamond Resorts Ltd and others [2018] UKSC 57’ [2019] 7 Journal of Planning and Environment Law 638 
• ‘Community property claims in the personhood perspective: part II’ (2018) 30(1) Denning Law Journal 85 
•  ‘A proprietary right to recreate’ [2017] 4 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 312 
•  ‘Community property claims in the personhood perspective: part I’ (2017) 29 Denning Law Journal 17 
•  ‘Confrontation, contentious use, and a West Yorkshire chip shop’ [2016] 5 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 414 
• ‘A trap for unwary developers? The operation of section 62 Law of Property Act 1925 following Wood v Waddington’ [2015] 12 Journal of Planning and Environment Law 1341 
• ‘The by right defence in village green registration’ (2015) 7(2) International Journal of Law in the Built Environment 96 
• ‘Analysing conservation covenants’ [2014] 12 Journal of Planning and Environment Law 1310 
• ‘The setting of the sun on the village green era?’ (2014) 26 Denning Law Journal 234 
•  ‘Conservation covenants: a proprietary analysis’ [2014] 78 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 328  
• ‘The application of the equitable doctrine of laches to the rectification of the town and village green register’ [2014] 6 Journal of Planning and Environment Law 588  

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