Property & Housing
Residential landlord and tenant
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.
Housing/Regulatory
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.
Housing/public law
Annette has extensive experience in dealing with housing matters in a public law context, such as homelessness, allocation, alternative routes to housing, and disability discrimination
Housing
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.
Shorthold tenancy
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.
FTT (Property Chamber)
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.
Public & Administrative
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.
Mediation
Annette is a qualified mediator, having mediated in mostly in housing disputes.
