In this article, Saima Zainab, Graduate Legal Assistant in our Commercial Property team, explores prescriptive rights and explains what property owners need to know.
Join Malcolm for his monthly Coffee Break Briefing.

With summer heatwaves, and thoughts turning to holidays overseas, the theme for the next ‘Iced' Coffee Break Briefing is ‘the Foreign element’. The sixth of 2026 is on Monday 20 July, at the usual time, 10.30 am.
‘The Foreign Element – Property, Businesses and Companies outside England and Wales’.
I will cover these issues:
- What is ‘foreign’.
- Foreign property.
- Foreign companies (and other foreign insolvencies).
- Foreign lawyers.
