Kirsteen is a Partner and the Head of Property Disputes at Ashtons Legal LLP. She has nearly 20 years’ experience in resolving property related issues.  The Property Disputes team at Ashtons Legal LLP was recently awarded “Litigation Team of the Year” 2025 by the Cambridgeshire Law Society.

Kirsteen’s career started at a well-established regional heavyweight firm, where she specialised in advising social housing providers to recover of possession and obtain anti-social behaviour injunctions.  She moved to one of the UK’s leading international law firms where she assisted public-sector transport institutions to providing litigation support in managing their commercial property portfolios as well acting for a top six energy company, insolvency practitioners and corporate clients in relation to a wide variety of commercial and real property disputes.

From 2017-2022, before moving to her current role, Kirsteen ran her own company, which provided consultancy services to property litigation teams in several well-established regional heavyweight firms.  Kirsteen is an expert in commercial, residential and agricultural property dispute related matters including but not limited to termination and breaches of commercial, residential and agricultural leases, residential long leaseholder rights and landlord obligations and issues which fetter land such as nuisance, rights of way, easements, adverse possession and trespass.

Kirsteen is a trained mediator and a member of the Property Litigation Association.  She is featured in the Legal 500 and delivers training to third parties, clients and colleagues.

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Reported cases in which Kirsteen has acted include Clarion Housing Association v Louise Carter [2021] EWHC 2890 (QB) and Southgate v Graham [2024] EWHC 1692 (Ch).