Commercial Landlord and Tenant
Our team understand the commercial decisions surrounding this complex area of law. With the majority of issues being resolved outside of the court system, we work as team with our clients throughout the negotiation process to achieve the most cost effective and efficient resolution to their dispute.
Our clients include commercial landlords, those with private portfolios, commercial tenants (including those with agricultural tenancies), licenced premises, as well as public bodies and institutions. Our team consists of recognised experts in Landlord and Tenant Law, from leading Queens Counsel to specialist junior tenants and some who sit in a Judicial capacity and in the specialist tribunals. Our team offers specific expertise in matters such as:
- Possession and forfeiture, including claims for relief
- Lease renewals and terminations under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954
- Breach of covenant
- Dilapidations and disrepair
- Break clauses and options
- Service charge disputes
- Improvements and alterations
- Rent reviews
- Assignments
- Agricultural matters, including Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 and Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995 and succession
- Mortgages, charges and receiverships
- Property related insolvency particularly involving LPA Receivers
- Licensed premises
- Management company disputes, service charge and enfranchisement.
We also offer experts who can provide specific advice on the tax implications on property purchases from SDLT liabilities to VAT.
Our Property and Estates Barristers...
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Former Solicitor General in England and Wales, the Rt.Hon. Michael Tomlinson KC (call:2002) is returning to 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) to practice as a barrister after more than 9 years as an MP and becoming one of UK’s top law enforcement officers. Michael was the first newly appointed King’s Counsel in 2022 and was sworn in as a member of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council in February 2024. Michael will be based in the...
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Oliver Nunn (Call: 2011) has joined 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) from KCH Garden Square Chambers. Oliver specialises in real estate disputes and his busy practice covers Landlord and Tenant disputes in the private residential and social housing sectors, agricultural tenancies and commercial leases. Highly rated as a property and social housing barrister by both Chambers UK and Legal 500, Oliver has significant experience representing institutional investors such as housing associations and local authorities in property-related...
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Commercial litigation barrister Saunak Irani-Nayar, who graduated with a BA and MA degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge and has been awarded several scholarships and prizes for his academic results, has become a member of 3PB. He specialises principally in banking, securities and finance litigation, contractual and business-to-business disputes, property disputes and consumer credit litigation. Ranked 1st in his year on the GDL, Saunak achieved one of the highest sets of marks ever...
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3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) specialist civil law barrister Jamie Johnston has presented a webinar for LexisNexis on commercial rent arrears recovery. In his webinar, Jamie covered a range of topics including the options that property owners have in recovering commercial rent arrears and the five steps to choosing the best of these options. Jamie also offered advice on what not to do in cases of commercial rent arrears recovery. To watch a preview of...
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Andrew Nicklin (2010 Call), pictured here, has joined 3 Paper Buildings (3PB). He has a busy specialist property and chancery practice across the South East of England (including London and all of East Anglia) with a particular expertise in real property, landlord and tenant, trusts of land and other trusts/estate disputes. He appears in the High Court (including in the Business and Property Courts) and the County Court and other tribunals providing a high level...
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3PB specialist Commercial and Property barristers Charles Irvine and Rebecca Farrell (pictured here) reflect on the expiry of remaining temporary measures introduced by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (“CIGA”), which provided important protection to businesses during the Covid pandemic. Rebecca and Charles also examine the impact for Landlords and Tenants of the Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022 (“the Act”) which received Royal Assent on 24 March 2022, including useful guidance that practitioners may...
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Barrister Jakob Reckhenrich, a multiple-scholarship award winner and Oxford and Brown Universities alumnus, has joined 3PB to advise on commercial, real estate and property disputes. He joins 3PB, initially as a third six pupil, after completing his pupillage at Monckton Chambers and working as a judicial assistant in the Commercial Court, where he assisted, among others, Mrs Justice Cockerill and Mr Justice Butcher. Jakob Reckhenrich came to the Bar after working as an academic philosopher...
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3PB’s specialist property and commercial law barrister Thomas Talbot-Ponsonby joined Tim Baldwin from Garden Court Chambers to record a webinar on ‘‘The impact of Covid-19 on residential property’’ for Lexis Nexis. In this webinar, the duo of barristers take a look at the impact of covid-19 on residential property from both the landlord’s and tenant’s perspectives. Thomas Talbot-Ponsonby takes a closer look at the landlord’s perspective including the initial response; terminating the tenancy; notice periods...
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3PB's specialist property law barristers Gavin Hamilton and Robert Weatherley bring you a recording of their webinar on recent developments in Commercial Landlord & Tenant Law. The webinar took place on 20th May 2021 and was chaired by specialist property and commercial law barrister Matthew Cannings. [Matthew Cannings is] "A strong trial advocate with a concise and approachable style". Legal 500 2021/Leading Junior Gavin Hamilton reviews reported cases over the last year and focuses on...
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3PB Barristers have created a dedicated webpage on its website to act as a hub for the many articles, briefings and webinar and podcast recordings about lockdown laws and regulations as well as practical issues like court attendance, e-bundles, remote and hybrid hearings. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to create employment, contractual and other legal challenges which are in many ways unprecedented. The impact of the virus is being felt, and in response, 3PB have...
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3PB Barristers' Property & Estates team has issued a new guide, authored by 3PB property barristers Charles Irvine and Rebecca Farrell, on the rights of commercial landlords and their tenants, both prior to the 2020 Act and now and offer practical solutions in these very challenging times for retailers and the commercial property sector. In particular, the guide deals with the existing position for commercial landlords and their tenants, such as the rights of re-entry...
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