Rowena Meager
(Door Tenant)

PROFILE

• All enquiries to Mr Tim Wheeler, Senior Clerk.
• Rowena completed her pupillage at a leading Chancery set and joins Harcourt Chambers as a door tenant.
• She graduated in 2002 with a First Class LLB (Hons) and went on to take the BCL at Merton College, Oxford, in 2003. She completed her Bar Vocational Course in 2007 being graded Outstanding.
• She is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Buckingham where she teaches Land Law and Trusts and is also a part time Tutor of Trusts at New College, Oxford, for whom she has taught since 2003.
• Rowena is a Shelford, Lord Denning and Hardwicke scholar and Buchanan Prize winner of Lincoln’s Inn. She was awarded the Clifford Chance Prize by Oxford University for her performance in Civil Procedure on the BCL. She was the recipient of the Barnet Bequest by Merton College, Oxford, for her BCL year and was awarded the Linnels Prize by Oxford Brookes University for best graduating law student in her year.
• Rowena has published widely in the field of property law. For a list of publications, please see below.

PRACTICE

• Chancery law: issues relating to real property including rights of way (public and private), covenants and adverse possession. Also trusts, taxation, professional negligence, contentious probate and the administration of estates.
• Rowena has a particular interest in the law relating to the registration of new greens under the Commons Act 2006 (previously the Commons Registration Act 1965) including public inquiries.

PUBLICATIONS:

• “Wild v Secretary of State” Rights of Way Law Review (RWLR), January 2010, Section 6.2, 27-31
• "Nec vi, nec clam, nec precario: The only criteria for a prescriptive claim?"  [2009] 73 Conv 505-516
• "Deference and User As of Right: An Unholy Alliance" Rights of Way Law Review (RWLR), October 2009, Section 15.3, 147-152
• "Pick a number" (2009) NLJ (New Law Journal), 1281-1282
• "Dog-leg claims kicked into touch: beneficiaries exposed?" [2009] Denning Law Journal, 119-130
• "A set back for the "village green industry"?" [2009] 68(2) CLJ 281-283
• "A family affair"(2009) 159 NLJ (New Law Journal), 588-589
• "Smith v Muller" Rights of Way Law Review (RWLR), February 2009,
  Section 14.2, 85-90
• "Show me the money" 2009, 159 NLJ (Issue 7354) 144-145
• "The Winchester Case: R (on the application of the Warden and Fellows of Winchester College and Humphrey Feeds Limited) v Hampshire County Council & the Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs" Rights of Way Law Review (RWLR), February 2008, Section 7.1, 33-38
• "New Town and Village Greens: The Calm Before the Storm?" Rights of Way Law Review (RWLR), October 2007, Section 15.3, 123-127
• "New Town and Village Greens: Back From the Brink" Oxfordshire County Council v Oxford City Council and Another [2006] UKHL 25 [2006] 70 Conv 584-598
• "New Town and Village Greens: A Thing of the Past?"[2006] 70 Conv 265-277
• "A New Dawn for Town and Village Greens?", Rights of Way Law Review (RWLR), February 2006, Section 15.3, page 91-95
• "Secret Trusts - Do They Have a Future?"[2003] 67 Conv 203-214
• Contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of Law, Oxford University Press, 6th Ed, 2006 & 7th Ed, 2009) - responsible for revising / contributing to the Trusts and Equity entries.