Oliver Mitchell

Call 2009

‘A junior who provides very thorough and detailed advice. He builds a good rapport with the client.’

For enquiries please contact

Stephen Arnold
Senior Practice Manager - Civil
0117 930 9000
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Joe Stayte
Practice Manager - Commercial, Insolvency, Property & Estates, Court of Protection (Property & Affairs)
0117 930 9000
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Caroline Evans
Senior Practice Manager - Civil
0117 930 9000
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Olive Kavanagh
Practice Manager - Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Court of Protection (Health & Welfare)
0117 930 9000
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‘A junior who provides very thorough and detailed advice. He builds a good rapport with the client.’


Legal 500 UK 2023

"He is responsive and has very good attention to detail. He provides very thorough and detailed advice."


Chambers & Partners UK 2023

"An approachable barrister who provides thorough and detailed advice."


Legal 500 2021

"He is very knowledgeable in his area. He shows great skill in both advising and advocacy work."


Chambers & Partners 2022

"Oliver is very knowledgeable and quick to grasp the facts of a case. His advice is detailed, yet clear and concise."


Legal 500 2022

"Intellectually able. A very bright junior."


Legal 500 2022

  • BVC (Very Competent), The College of Law, Birmingham
  • GDL (Distinction), The College of Law, Birmingham
  • LLB Hons, The College of Law, Birmingham
  • MA (Oxon), University of Oxford

  • Chancery Bar Association
  • Court of Protection Bar Association
  • Contentious Trusts Association

Oliver Mitchell’s practice encompasses Property & Estates (commercial and residential), Inheritance, Wills, Probate & Estates and Commercial work.

He has extensive experience acting for corporate clients, individuals and Insolvency practitioners.

Oliver appears in the High Court, County Court and First-Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber), and has been led in the Court of Appeal and High Court. His practice involves Court and Tribunal work as well as a broad range of advisory and drafting work.

Expertise

Oliver accepts instructions covering a wide range of property and trusts/estates matters, including:

  • Easements and covenants
  • Trusts of land and proprietary estoppel
  • Nuisance
  • Landlord & Tenant
  • Possession and sale
  • Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependents) Act claims
  • Interpretation of Wills
  • Probate claims
  • Applications in relation to trustees/personal representatives and the performance of their functions

Water & Utilities

Oliver has a particular interest in the water industry, and more generally in the law relating to utilities and utility assets. He has an understanding of the statutory underpinnings of the utility sector, including detailed knowledge of the legal framework relating to public water and sewerage assets, having worked for almost two years within the in-house legal team of a large water and sewerage undertaker prior to practising at the Bar. He is therefore particularly happy to receive instructions in matters concerning rights and obligations in respect of utility services and assets.

Featured Property, Trusts & Estates cases


Appearing for the successful defendants in a multi-day trial of a boundary dispute concerning contested evidence as to the historic physical boundary location.


Representing a defendant in a forfeiture action relating to commercial premises, involving a question of the present state of the law on remediability of breaches.


Appearing for the claimant in a two-day trial of an unlawful eviction claim in respect of a business.


Claims concerning vesting orders to permit enfranchisement in the context of untraceable freeholders.


Appearing for a utility company in a complicated warrant of entry application raising the question of the interaction of the statutory regime and planning law.


Representing one of the defendants at trial in the High Court in a claim challenging a will for want of knowledge and approval.


Appearing on an application for a Re. Benjamin order to assist personal representatives.


Advising on questions of rectification of wills.

Oliver draws upon a broad experience of commercial practice, and is available to provide advice, drafting and representation in areas including the following:

  • Breach of contract and misrepresentation
  • Promissory estoppel
  • Guarantees
  • Sale of goods and supply of services
  • Professional negligence
  • Debt claims

Featured Commercial Dispute Resolution cases


Appearing (led by Hugh Sims QC) in the High Court in an appeal concerning the admissibility of redacted documents, and in the hearing of the same matter in the Court of Appeal as part of a three-day hearing of linked appeals.


Appearing at trial for a claimant seeking repayment of sums paid under disputed energy supply contracts, in a claim giving rise to issues of economic duress and ostensible/apparent authority.


Claims involving disputed authenticity of documents.

Oliver sees property and financial affairs work within the jurisdiction of the Court of Protection as a natural extension to his trusts and estates practice, engaging many of the same considerations and underlying fiduciary principles.

Oliver will be pleased to consider instructions concerning property and financial affairs matters specifically within the Court of Protection, as well as matters raising issues which crossover between that jurisdiction and the Chancery Division or County Court, such as claims by or concerning estates and involving the actions of attorneys and deputies.

For enquiries please contact

Stephen Arnold
Senior Practice Manager - Civil
0117 930 9000
Click here to email

Joe Stayte
Practice Manager - Commercial, Insolvency, Property & Estates, Court of Protection (Property & Affairs)
0117 930 9000
Click here to email

Caroline Evans
Senior Practice Manager - Civil
0117 930 9000
Click here to email

Olive Kavanagh
Practice Manager - Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Court of Protection (Health & Welfare)
0117 930 9000
Click here to email

‘A junior who provides very thorough and detailed advice. He builds a good rapport with the client.’


Legal 500 UK 2023

"He is responsive and has very good attention to detail. He provides very thorough and detailed advice."


Chambers & Partners UK 2023

"An approachable barrister who provides thorough and detailed advice."


Legal 500 2021

"He is very knowledgeable in his area. He shows great skill in both advising and advocacy work."


Chambers & Partners 2022

"Oliver is very knowledgeable and quick to grasp the facts of a case. His advice is detailed, yet clear and concise."


Legal 500 2022

"Intellectually able. A very bright junior."


Legal 500 2022

  • BVC (Very Competent), The College of Law, Birmingham
  • GDL (Distinction), The College of Law, Birmingham
  • LLB Hons, The College of Law, Birmingham
  • MA (Oxon), University of Oxford

  • Chancery Bar Association
  • Court of Protection Bar Association
  • Contentious Trusts Association

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