Nicola is experienced in all aspects of housing law and regularly acts for both landlords and tenants in the public and private sector. Nicola was named as a Leading Junior in the Legal 500 (2015 and 2016) with the Legal 500 referring to her as "An expert in housing cases".
Nicola also has experience of cases where one of the parties lacks capacity, including cases involving the Official Solicitor.
Nicola’s areas of practice include:
Possession
• Secure, assured and assured short hold tenancies
• Demoted, introductory and starter tenancies
• Licences
• Discretionary grounds including ASB, nuisance, cannabis farms
• Mandatory grounds including rent arrears, s.21 Notices
• Trespassers
• Public law Defences including Human Rights and Proportionality
Homelessness and Allocations
• Initial advices on merits
• s.204 appeals
• JR applications
Injunctions and Committals
• ASB injunctions
• s.222 injunctions
• Unlawful eviction
• Breach of tenancy
• Trespassers
• Exclusion from specified land
• Access for gas inspections, urgent repairs
Disrepair
Unlawful Eviction
• Injunctions to gain re-entry
• Claims for damages
Right to Buy
Succession
Residential leases and Forfeiture
Housing Benefit Disputes
Nicola co-writes the chapters "Occupation and the Home" and "Homelessness" for "Cohabitation Law and Precedents" (published by Sweet and Maxwell).
"A Leading Junior in her field."
Legal 500 (2015)'Incredibly smart and aggressive where necessary.'
Legal 500 (2017)
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