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Philip Rainey QC | Landlord & Tenant - Tanfield Chambers
“He is excellent, has a good manner in court and is very good at presenting cases.” “Excellent academically and commercially astute.” “He offers clear and concise advice and is able to turn his hand to all kinds of complex issues.” “Does not sit on the fence and gives excellent, pragmatic and assertive advice.”
“Excellent, particularly on complex real property issues.”
“One of the leading barristers in this field. He is a supremely confident, smooth, incredible advocate and has incredible knowledge of all areas in property litigation.”
“Does not sit on the fence and gives excellent, pragmatic and assertive advice.”
“He has formidable intellect along with strength and depth of knowledge.”
“He is very quick and bright, and a spectacular cross-examiner.”
“He has a huge brain and is very bright. He tactically does a great job.”
“A true star with a first-class brain.”
“His expertise and knowledge of long leasehold and enfranchisment work are hard to beat.”
“A very good advocate with a commercial, client-friendly approach.”
“Philip is extremely user-friendly. His advice is clear, definitive and reasoned, and his willingness to provide strong opinions gives you real faith in your position.”
Barrister of the Year, Enfranchisement Awards (2009 & 2016)
Real Estate Junior of the Year, Chambers Bar Awards (2009)
Civil Procedure Rules Committee (2001-2008)
Contributor: Smith & Monkcom, The Law of Gambling; 4th edition (Bloomsbury 2017)
Co-author: Megarry’s Manual of the Law of Real Property 9th edition (Sweet & Maxwell 2014)
Co-author: Service Charges and Management; 3rd edition (Sweet & Maxwell 2013)
Co-author: Rent Review: A Surveyor’s Handbook (RICS 2008)
Philip is head of chambers, and took Silk in 2010 “…to the unequivocal delight of the market” (Chambers UK 2011).
Philip is a specialist in property litigation. His practice straddles the commercial/residential divide; it encompasses all aspects of real property, commercial L&T, as well as the residential L&T (particularly enfranchisement and service charges) in which Philip made his name. He has a wealth of experience at the highest level; he has taken six cases to the Lords/Supreme Court, most recently the much-discussed Sequent Nominees v Hautford; and numerous others to the Court of Appeal.
“One of the leading barristers in this field. He is a supremely confident, smooth, incredible advocate and has incredible knowledge of all areas in property litigation.” (Chambers UK 2019)
“Does not sit on the fence and gives excellent, pragmatic and assertive advice.” (Chambers UK 2019)
Real Estate Junior of the Year, Chambers Bar Awards 2009
Barrister of the Year, Enfranchisement Awards 2009 and 2016
Philip is a specialist in property litigation. His practice straddles the commercial/residential divide; it encompasses all aspects of real property, commercial L&T, as well as the residential L&T (particularly enfranchisement and service charges) for which Philip is perhaps best known.
Philip has considerable experience acting for and against developers, in respect of options, overage disputes, establishing service charges, offplan sales, social and affordable housing aspects and the problems of mixed use among others.
Philip has appeared in many leading cases in the property field, including Kumarasamy v Edwards [2016] UKSC 40 [2016] AC 1334 (dilapidations), Menelaou v Bank of Cyprus [2016] AC 176 (mortgagee’s subrogation rights), and the “squatters rights” judicial review in R(Best) v Chief Land Registrar [2015] 2 P&CR 1. Philip earlier appeared in Cadogan v Sportelli [2010] 1 AC 226 and Howard de Walden v Aggio [2009] 1 AC 39 in the House of Lords and Daejan Investments v Benson [2013] 1 WLR 854 in the Supreme Court.
Philip has extensive experience in mortgage and guarantee claims, rent review, dilapidations, easements, restrictive covenants, boundary disputes, property-insolvency and contracts for sale. He knows his way around a party wall and the 1996 Act. Philip is experienced in arbitration and expert determination, both as advocate before the third party and in challenging the award or determination in court. He also undertakes a range of work which shades into the commercial arena, including overage and clawback, profit sharing, aspects of banking law, economic torts, fiduciary duty claims, freezing injunctions etc. His clients range from landed estates, listed property companies and banks to individual tenants.
Philip has a keen, apolitical interest in law reform in the field of landlord and tenant law. He has presented papers to the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform, and he assisted the Law Commission with its project on “Event Fees” in the retirement housing sector. He is a regular speaker on property law issues.
Sequent Nominees Ltd v Hautford Ltd [2020] AC 28 Commercial lease - consent to make planning application - reasonably withheld
Berkeley Square Investments Ltd v Berkeley Square Holdings Ltd [2019] UKUT 384 (LC) Commercial long lease - user covenant – s.84 Law of Property Act 1925 – modified to permit use as private members club
Shaviram Normandy Ltd v Basingstoke & Deane BC [2019] UKUT 256 (LC); [2020] RVR 51 Commercial long lease - user covenant – s.84 Law of Property Act 1925 – modified to permit residential use
Golding v Martin [2019] EWCA Civ 446; [2019] Ch 489 Forfeiture – residential premises – order in wrong form – set aside
Corvan (Properties) v Abdel-Mahmoud [2018] EWCA Civ 1102 Service Charges - s.20 LLTA 1985 - management agreement - QLTA.
London Sephardi Trust v John Lyon's Charity [2018] QB 1163 (CA) Interpretation Act 1978 - repeal and re-enactment - enfranchisement.
St Emmanuel House v Berkeley Seventy Six [2018] Enfranchisement - RPI linked rent - capitalisation rate - 3.35%.
Al-Rawas v Hassan Khan & Co [2017] EWCA Civ 42 [2017] 1 WLR 2301 (CA) Counterclaim - amendment - relation back - Limitation period.
Southwark LBC v Akhtar [2017] UKUT 150; [2017] L&TR 36 Service charges - demands - service - waiver - s.20B LLTA 1985.
Kumarasamy v Edwards [2016] UKSC 40 [2016] AC 1334 Dilapidations - notice requirement - common parts - s.11 LLTA 1985 - easement.
Menelaou v Bank of Cyprus [2015] UKSC 66 [2016] AC 176 Unjust enrichment - mortgagee - subrogation - unpaid vendor's lien
R (Best) v Chief Land Registrar [2015] EWCA Civ 17 [2016] QB 23 (CA) Adverse Possession – Land Registration - Illegality - Criminalisation of squatting, s.144 LASPOA
Trustees of the Sloane Stanley Estate v Mundy [2016] L&TR 32 (UT) Enfranchisement - relativity - hedonic regression.
Foxland Management Ltd v Redab (2016 HHJ Hand QC) Party Wall Award - s.10 appeal - third surveyor - whether compellable witness.
Investin Chiswick v Firstwood (UK) (2016 Birss J unrep) Sale of land - development - completion conditions - order for expedition.
100 years on the Statute Book but only one contested case…until now….
Hope Community Church (Wymondham) v Phelan [2020] UKHC 1240 (Ch)
Mrs Justice…
Philip Rainey QC and Chris Heather QC appeared in the case Rees v 82 Portland Place Investments LLP and 82 Portland Place (Freehold) Limited
Rees v 82 Portland Place Investments LLP and 82 Portland Place (Freehold)…
Philip Rainey QC and Jonathan Upton successful in 1993 Act appeal
In Consensus Business Group (Ground Rents) Ltd v Palgrave Gardens Freehold…
Philip Rainey QC appears in another finely balanced case concerning restrictive covenants and lease extensions under the 1993 Act
Philip Rainey QC has recently appeared for the Defendants in another interesting…
Staying put, or not?
Civil Procedure Rules Practice Direction 51Z (“PD51Z”) made by the…