Full timeline

Mr Tyson approaches Mr Lake about land; Mr Lake initially declines but agrees to help find a buyer. A few weeks later the idea shifts to a business partnership: if planning can be obtained for two properties, Mr Lake will build them and they will take one each. Planning is granted over roughly a year.

Work is interrupted over who owns the entrance. Mr Lake offers £50,000 for the land plus help sorting access; after a counter, a verbal £60,000 agreement is recorded as agreed with a handshake.

67 Grays Road is bought in Mrs Tyson’s name; Mr Lake’s file records his deposit share, mortgage payments, drainage spend, and treats these as deductions from the £60,000 land price. A separate 57–59 Grays Road shop project follows (50/50 split, architect fees, manhole and other costs)—described as a different arrangement from the land deal.

Fee dispute with ASP Associates; Mr Lake takes them to the Small Claims Court and wins. His materials treat that judgment as proof he paid what he said he had paid, including cash elements.

MR_LAKE_STORY_RECAP dates Mrs Tyson’s claim from January 2014, with Mr Lake arguing a six-year limitation point against much older completion dates (his file refers to work finished by 2007 before the summer). In parallel, The True Story describes 2014 and barrister Robert Toone abandoning a limitation defence Mr Lake says he never agreed to—materials say the judge had been minded to allow the case partly on that basis.

The recap describes further judicial stages (including judges named there), alleged non-admission of Mr Lake’s evidence, involvement of Charles Morgan QC, and eventual bankruptcy. It also records loss of properties, bank sale figures, and an ongoing Crown hold on a later home. Exact year-by-year court steps are in transcripts and binders under Evidence / Archive.

The recap records the death of Mr Lake’s wife Brenda in 2018 and links severe stress from the litigation to family harm. Treat this as a personal statement in the case file, not a medical or legal conclusion on this page.

• 20 July 2025 – Barclays correspondence pack dated in Barclays_Correspondence.
• 1 September 2025 – NCA complaint posted (tracked delivery logged in NCA_Correspondence README).
• 6 September 2025 – SRA complaint materials dated in SRA_Correspondence README.

Large bundles and analyses were prepared under ECHR Application. The Archive README records that the Court declared the application inadmissible in February 2026.

barclays 2026 letters describes two Barclays letters in 2026, Mayo Wynne solicitors, and a proposed £3,000 payment toward the Crown hold context. In March 2026 the former root materials were moved into Archive and the written strategy shifted to UK routes, one issue at a time (again per Archive README).

Active instructions and letters sit in Crown hold and bankruptcy (for example Barclays response drafts and case position statements). See Current focus for a file list and links.