Source: http://www.4-5.co.uk/barristers/profile/annette-cafferkey
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 20:15:42+00:00

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"Brilliant even in the most challenging of cases"
Annette specialises in landlord & tenant, housing, residential leasehold matters, local government (public law/judicial review) and education law. She is regularly instructed by landlords (both private & public bodies), tenants, local authorities and parents (in relation to education matters).
Annette started her career in a successful chancery set, and went on to gain experience doing general civil work before specialising in the areas mentioned above. She is recognised by the Legal 500 as “a tenacious lawyer, who understands the needs of vulnerable clients” and “brilliant even in the most challenging cases” with “tremendous experience at all levels of court and tribunals”.
Annette joined 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square in October 2018, after spending 17 years building a very successful Property and Housing practice at Arden Chambers.
Annette’s practice covers the full scope of work in this area including service and administration charges, dispensation from consultation, Right to Manage (RTM), appointment of managers, and housing standards.
Annette’s practice includes matters concerning housing standards under Part 1, Housing Act 2004, and licensing under Parts 2 and 3 of the 2004 Act, as well as environmental law.
Annette has extensive experience in dealing with all residential housing matters, for tenants, families, local authorities and other public bodies. Those matters include anything from straightforward possession claims, to those based on more complicated grounds, ASB, succession disputes, and disrepair.
Annette has extensive experience in dealing with all matters in this area, including disputes about notices, tenancy deposits and unlawful eviction.
In relation to all of the above, Annette acts for the full spectrum of clients, tenants, applicants, local authorities, housing associations and other public bodies.
Annette appears regularly in the FTT. The areas of work she has covered in this tribunal includes service charge disputes (for both tenants, landlords (including local authorities) and managing agents, right to manage disputes, enfranchisement, breach of covenant matters and appeals relating to housing standards.
Annette’s practice in judicial review incorporates a broad area of public law, including homelessness, housing and allocation, closure of local services, provision of services under Local Offers, education matters, and public law more generally.
Annette’s education law practice relates primarily to exclusion and special educational needs matters.
Annette is a qualified mediator, having mediated in mostly in housing disputes.
Nottingham CC v Parr  UKSC 51;  All ER 40 - the type of conditions that can be attached to HMO licences, whether a condition can restrict the use of the accommodation to a type of occupier. Junior Counsel for the Authority.
Poshteh v RB Kensington & Chelsea, SoS intervening  UKSC 36;  AC 624 - suitability of accommodation; article 6 ECHR. Homelessness appeal dismissed. Junior Counsel for the Authority.
Poshteh v RB Kensington & Chelsea  EWCA Civ 711;  HLR 36 - instructed on appeal to the CoA for the Authority. Homelessness appeal dismissed.
Makisi v Birmingham CC  EWCA Civ 355;  HLR 25 - Regulation 8(2): did oral hearing on review involve a face-to-face meeting with the review officer? Junior Counsel for the Authority.
Nzamy v Brent LBC  EWCA Civ 283;  HLR 20 - unlawful discharge of main housing duty. Applicant’s appeal allowed. Junior counsel for the appellant in the Court of Appeal.
Smith v Khan  EWCA Civ 1137;  HLR 18 - succeeded on appeal against lower court’s finding of surrender and daily rate of damages. Counsel for the appellant.
Barking & Dagenham LBC v Bakare  EWCA Civ 750;  HLR 34 - appellant’s appeal against a possession order made on nuisance grounds dismissed. Counsel for the Authority.
Southwark LBC v Kofi-Adu  EWCA Civ 281;  HLR 38 - appeal against a possession order on grounds of nuisance dismissed. Counsel for the appellant.
Hackney LBC v McNamara  Central London CC - succession trial. Possession order made. Counsel for the Authority.
Leicester CC v Bulbulia  Leicester CC - claim for possession based on under-occupation. Defended on the grounds of legitimate expectation, non est factum, and equitable assignment. Possession order made. Counsel for the defendant.
Cleve Court (Ealing) Management Ltd v Link  EWCA Civ 787, Court of Appeal, successfully representing Ms Link at the claimant’s renewed application for permission to pursue a second appeal, in relation to its claim for service charges.
Cleve Court (Ealing) Management Ltd v Link  Central London CC, representing the defendant appellant successfully on her appeal against judgment in respect of service charges.
Croydon LBC v Afolayan (2014) LRX/37/2014; LON/00AH/LSC/2013/0339 – service charge dispute brought against Croydon, challenging their various bases of assessment for services in connection with their private leaseholder stock. Appeared (successfully) for Croydon; leaseholder’s application for appeal dismissed.
R (Afolayan) v LB Croydon CO/2439/2014, successfully resisting judicial review application brought against Upper Tribunal’s refusal of permission to appeal.
M.E. Ball Associates v (1) Abbouzakki Holdings Ltd, (2) Hurford Salvi Carr, (2) Saracen Investments, Central London County Court, (appeal to Circuit Judge) (April 2014) – management audit of service charge accounts and funds, representing the (successful) second and third defendants.
Connaught Court RTM Company Ltd v Abouzakki Holdings Ltd LON/00BK/LRM/2005/001: right to manage application (now on appeal to the Lands Tribunal).
Rita Taylor & Others v LB Southwark, successfully representing leaseholders dispute service charges LON/00BE/LSC/2006/0152.
Norwich CC v Marshall  LRX/114/2007, Lands Tribunal – construction of lease provisions. Counsel for the respondent Authority. Appeal dismissed.
R (TQ) v Wolverhampton CC CO/6006/15, successfully representing TQ in a challenge the the local authority’s Local Offer and provision of autism treatment.
R (Enfield LBC) v Barnet Clinical Commissioning Group  EWHC 3496 junior counsel in a judicial review of the Commissioning Group’s decision to close local A&E department.
R (ota McDonagh) v Houslow LBC  EWHC 511 (Admin): challenge to an assessment under s. 17 of the Children Act 1989.
Howard v (1) President of SENDIST (2) LB of Enfield CO/5754/2005: appeal from SENDIST in respect of their dismissal of the application challenging the authorities named school on the SEN statement.
Regulating Affordable Housing, Lexis Nexis, co-author – forthcoming.

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