Property, Landlord & Tenant

Kate has a broad property practice and accepts instructions in all aspects of landlord & tenant law and real property.

Kate acts in residential and commercial landlord & tenant matters including possession proceedings. She receives instructions to advise and represent freeholders, leaseholders, property managers and tenants on lease extensions, break clauses, service charges, and applications for the appointment of a manager. Her work includes advice and representation in disputes involving boundaries, easements, and party walls.

Kate also deals with enforcement actions arising from related property proceedings and has acted in contempt and in third party debt order applications. She provides added insight from her previous roles along with a pragmatic and commercially sensitive approach.

Selected Cases

  • Representing a commercial leaseholder in HMO licencing appeals at the First Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber).
  • Acting for a landlord of a large Estate before the First Tier Tribunal relating to the recovery of service charges under long residential leases.
  • Mathewson v Crump & Crump [2020] EWHC 3167 (QB): successfully defended joint owners against a £200,000 claim under the Occupiers Liability Act 1957 relating to a property conversion.
  • Settled a tenancy dispute and multi-track dilapidations claim on behalf of a landlord relating to a substantial mixed-use property. Obtained a favourable result for the legal owner.
  • Advising a building owner in relation to a building regulation dispute.
  • Advising a freeholder in a right of way dispute and associated injunction proceedings.
  • Representing a Defendant to a Housing Trust application for an anti-social behaviour order injunction and possession order at a 7-day trial.
  • Acting for a Tenant in possession proceedings which involved a lengthy ownership dispute.
  • Advising on the service charge liability of a leaseholder for a potential claim for the determination of service charges.
  • Advising a Defendant to a claim for service charges on issues relating to challenging the validity of a Lease.
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