Summary of Main areas of work 2025: Civil cases

[claimants/defendants that are publicly funded – excluded]

• Property
• Landlord & tenant disputes
• Commercial property disputes
• Residential appeals against planning decisions
• Contracts

Upper Tribunal Appeal –  2025

• MOO v DBS

Care Worker and Disclosure & Barring Service

1st Tier Tribunal – Property Chamber

Unlicensed HMO Housing Act 2004 – Section 72(1)

Rent Repayment Order

• Seherli v Asenor & Spasov

County Courts: Housing Act 1988 s.8 Possession & s.21 claims

• Nwosu v DMS Properties Services Ltd – s.21 success for claimant owner
• Oke v Oyeyemi – s.8 success for claimant landlord
• Onyeama v Akinsola –  s.21 success for claimant owner
• Nguessan v Adam – s.8 success for claimant (deceased landlord’s next of kin)
• Usman v Ahmed – s.8 success for claimant landlord

MAIN WORK AREAS

Property disputes

Resulting and Constructive trusts

Proprietary estoppel

Rights of way; easements

Party walls; boundary disputes

Nuisance

Renter’s Rights Act 2025.  Timelines of implementation.

Residential Properties

Tenancies, Licences

HMOs. Council licensing schemes

Residential Possession proceedings; S.8 and S.21; Notices; Grounds for possession

Tenant defences to possession

Retaliatory possession proceedings

Disrepair. Awaab’s Law

Roles of local authority and Environmental Health Officers

Rent repayment orders

Possession orders; Eviction warrants and writs

Illegal eviction and harassment

Eviction of excluded occupiers

Eviction of squatters

Mortgage possession proceedings

Eviction of tenants of mortgage borrowers

Role of Receivers

Planning rules

Commercial properties

Commercial leases

Business Tenancies; mixed-used leases

1954 Landlord and Tenant Act security

Lease terms. Break clauses; Forfeiture; Renewal.

Dilapidations

Planning rules – local and national

Shops and licensing regulations

Social Housing

Council tenancies:

Secure and temporary (introductory & flexible tenancies)

Temporary accommodation; Bed & Breakfast; hostels; private sector.

Licences for temporary accommodation

Private sector leased accommodation

Rent arears

Anti-social behaviour

Management Agreements with private sector landlords

Private Sector Hostels exclusively for Social Housing tenants: Leases, Terms and renewals; termination and dilapidations

Social Housing construction projects

Contracts

Terms, interpretation, breaches, misrepresentation, mistake, remedies.

Supply of goods or services

Musicians; Media contracts. Intellectual property issues

International commercial contracts

International supply agreements; drafting; disputes; remedies

Jurisdiction in international disputes and litigation

Previous experience includes;

• Instruction by Legal Department of London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea in a special investigation and report on one aspect of the Grenfell Fire case
• Administrative Division of High Court – appeals
• Defence cases in Crown Courts
• Prosecution and Defence work in Magistrates’ courts
• Licensing cases in Magistrates Courts

• Southampton University
• Inns of Court School of Law – BVC
• King’s College London, (Post-graduate)
• University of Law London, (Post-graduate)
• Institute of Leadership and Management – Essential Management for Team Leaders