We provide specialist legal advice and representation in court.
We act for solicitors, individuals, businesses & organisations.
PROPERTY
“Strategic, comprehensive and timely”
Our barristers provide legal advice and representation in all courts and tribunals from the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber), Upper Tribunal and County Court up to the Supreme Court.
Our clients are residential and commercial landlords and tenants, purchasers of properties, tenants’ associations. managing agents, property developers and trustees and beneficiaries of trusts.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Option to purchase
Overage and conditional contracts
Party wall disputes
Planning applications and permission
Pre-emptions
Restrictive covenants
Right to buy
Rights of light
Breach of repairing covenants
Forfeiture
Leasehold covenants
Leasehold enfranchisement under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993
Possession claims under the Rent Act or the Housing Acts
Recovery of rent
Security of tenure
Service charges
Tenants’ rights of first refusal under the Landlord & Tenant Act 1987
The Housing Acts 1985 and 1988
The Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995
The Landlord and Tenant Act 1985
The Landlord and Tenant Act 1987
The Rent Act 1977
Application of the Competition Act 1998
Assignment
Breaches of covenant
Break clauses
Business tenancies
Common law aspects of commercial landlord and tenant
Covenants
Enfranchisement
Forfeiture
Ground rents
Grounds for opposing renewal
Lease variation
Length of new lease
Liability for dilapidations
Market rent
Negotiating the terms and rent for a lease renewal
Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954
Regain of possession for development
Rent reviews
Right To Manage and appointment of managers
Section 25 notice of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954
Service charges
Statutory compensation
Termination of the tenancy by statutory notice
Actions against third parties
Applications under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (TOLATA)
Applications under the Variation of Trusts Act 1958 and Trustee Act 1925
