Source: http://www.zenithchambers.co.uk/barristers/Kerry%20Bretherton%20QC/housing
Timestamp: 2018-02-21 22:57:12
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Matched Legal Cases: ['EWCA ', 'UKSC ', 'UKSC ', 'EWCA ', 'EWCA ', 'EWCA ', 'EWCA ', 'EWCA ', 'EWCA ', 'EWCA ', 'UKSC ', 'EWCA ', 'EWCA ']

Real property work includes land registration, boundaries, easements, rights of light and party walls. A recent example of her work is MacLeod and others v Gold Harp Properties Ltd and others [2014] EWCA Civ 1084; [2015] 1 W.L.R. 1249 (in which Kerry succeeded in the Court of Appeal in the leading case on land registration)
Residential property cases including mixed use developments, service charge disputes, leasehold enfranchisement, rights of first refusal, right to manage, possession and disrepair. Recent work has included high value disputes on issues ranging from VAT chargeable on service charges in high end developments to cases involving right to manage and rights of first refusal. Kerry has been involved in some of the most significant cases in this area including McDonald v McDonald [2016] UKSC 28; [2016] 3 W.L.R. 45 (which concerns the right to rely upon an Article 8 defence in a claim brought by a private landlord in which permission has been sought to appeal to the ECHR), Ruza Berrisford v Mexfield Housing Co-operative [2011] UKSC 52; [2011] 3 W.L.R. 1091 which involved tenancies for life; London Borough of Hackney v Findlay [2011] EWCA Civ 8 in which Kerry succeeded in the Court of Appeal regarding the procedural test which was applicable when a tenant failed to attend a possession hearing and Sharples v Places for People; Godfrey v A2 Dominion Housing [2011] EWCA Civ 813; [2011] H.L.R. 45 concerning possession and debt relief orders and Alexander-David v Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham [2009] EWCA Civ 259 the lead case on granting tenancies to minors in which Kerry succeeded in the Court of Appeal.
Social housing including homelessness, allocations, right to buy, possession, succession, and disrepair. Kerry has long since been regarded as one of the leading practitioners in the area of social housing and has been consistently rated in the directories as such. She has been involved in a number of the lead cases in the area of homelessness: Haile v Waltham Forest LBC [(UKSC) [2015] A.C. 1471 (an intentional homelessness case in which Kerry succeeded on behalf of the appellant and the Supreme Court clarified the relevant test for intentional homelessness), Hemans v Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead [2011] EWCA Civ 374 in which Kerry succeeded in the Court of Appeal, Bull v Oxford City Council [2011] EWCA Civ 609 and Waltham Forest LBC v Davis Maloba & Law Society (Interested Party) [2008] 1 WLR 2079. Examples of her right to buy cases include Ryan v London Borough of Islington [2009] EWCA Civ 578 and Kerry has dealt with many cases involving succession.
Her Court of Protection work includes the leading cases on personal welfare such as ACCG v MN (the jurisdictional boundary between the Administrative Court and Court of Protection in which judgment from the Supreme Court pending) A local authority v M [2015] EWCOP 4 (factitious illness imposed on others) and G v E (Costs) [2010] EWHC 3385 (Fam) (affirmed by the CA at [2011] EWCA Civ 939 the lead case on costs in the Court of Protection and to those on property and affairs Re GM [2013] EWHC 2966 (COP); [2013] W.T.L.R. 835 (financial abuse of a vulnerable adult) and Re Treadwell (deceased) [2013] EWHC 2409 (COP); [2013] W.T.L.R. 1445 concerning statutory wills.
Examples of her public law work includes MB v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2016] UKSC 53; [2017] 1 All E.R. 338 (referred to the ECJ by the Supreme Court) and work in the Court of Appeal examples include R. (on the application of Kent CC) v Secretary of State for Health [2015] EWCA Civ 81; [2015] 1 W.L.R. 1221 (ordinary residence under the National Assistance Act) Secretary of State for the Home Department v CT (Vietnam) [2016] EWCA Civ 488 to tribunal work such as AN Checker Heating & Services Engineers v Revenue and Customs Commissioners First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber), [2013] UKFTT 506 (TC) (single supply of VAT);