Harry is fantastic. He goes above and beyond when dealing with both parties. He quickly understands the sensitive issues and the key areas of dispute that are crucial to focus on. He’s approachable and well prepared. He quickly builds up a rapport with clients, which is invaluable throughout the course of the mediations. He’s balanced and he challenges where necessary.”

Chambers UK 2025, Mediators

Harry is an accomplished and directory-ranked, full-time specialist leading mediator whose practice extends across the real estate and property spectrum, and is regularly instructed to mediate in such cases.  Disputes in this sector are especially well suited to resolution by mediation because of its capacity to resolve practical problems through bespoke solutions outside the powers of the courts.  Accordingly mediation in this field comprises a substantial proportion of Harry’s practice.

Harry mediates in disputes concerning a wide range of land and property types: commercial, retail, leisure, residential, agricultural, forestry, education, public, sport and recreation, as well as development land.

Parties include landowners, tenants and other occupiers, developers, public bodies such as local authorities and regulators, community and campaign groups, and beneficiaries and family members in family farm inheritance cases.

Harry has significant experience of disputes engaging a wide range of issues, including the following:

  • Land ownership
  • Boundaries
  • Trespass
  • Easements
  • Rights of way
  • Rights to light
  • Public access and other rights to land
  • Town and village greens
  • Adverse possession
  • Sewerage and drainage
  • Dilapidations
  • Rent arrears
  • Leasehold termination
  • Forestry rights
  • Leasehold covenants
  • Freehold management
  • Sale of land
  • Planning
  • Overage
  • Development
  • Solicitor professional negligence
  • Nuisance
  • Antisocial behaviour
  • Renewable energy installations

Read more about Harry’s mediation practice here.

Directory Quotes

Harry is fantastic. He goes above and beyond when dealing with both parties. He quickly understands the sensitive issues and the key areas of dispute that are crucial to focus on.

Chambers UK 2025 , Mediators

He has been very effective. He has a good bedside manner, earning the trust of the parties involved. He thinks creatively about approaching solutions too.

Chambers UK 2025 , Mediators

He’s approachable and well prepared. He quickly builds up a rapport with clients, which is invaluable throughout the course of the mediations. He’s balanced and he challenges where necessary.

Chambers UK 2025, Mediators

Harry Spurr never gives up, and is excellent at keeping the parties engaged and open-minded

The Legal 500 2025, Mediators

Spurr is sought after for challenging disputes involving property, shareholders, boardrooms, and inheritance matters, as well as corporate and commercial law. He also handles disputes related to defamation, harassment, discrimination, negligence, employment, financial services, and education.

The Legal 500 2025 , Mediators

Has all the skills required of an effective mediator. He has an impressive knowledge of the law, and an equally impressive commercial awareness.

The Legal 500 2024, Mediators

Increasingly winning instructions from high-profile clients in the UK and internationally [ … ] Spurr is ‘personable, calming and not afraid to put forward opposing points of view in the hope it will lead to progress’ .”

Legal 500 2023, Mediators

Personable, calming, and not afraid to put forward opposing points of view in the hope it will lead to progress.

The Legal 500 2023, Mediators

Harry is forensic in his approach to analysing the strengths of a case. He has a commercial outlook and is acutely aware of client objectives. He is personable and a pleasure to work with, yet is capable of taking a tough stand when required.”

Legal 500, 2023

Very commercial, thorough and approachable.”

Legal 500, 2022
  • Qualifications & awards:

    • Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR)
    • Inns of Court School of Law
    • Exeter University
  • Professional memberships:

    • Planning and Environmental Bar Association (PEBA)
    • UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA)
    • Civil Mediation Council (CMC)
    • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)
  • Harry Spurr is regulated by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) and holds a current practising certificate. If you are not satisfied with the service provided, please read here.