Property/Landlord and Tenant

Experience across a wide range of residential and commercial property and landlord and tenant work including the following:

- residential tenancies, including nuisance related injunctions and evictions

- rent and housing benefit issues

- disrepair

- business tenancies including renewals and forfeitures

- construction of leases

- leasehold enfranchisement and lease extensions

- service charge disputes

- easements, covenants, rights of way and boundary disputes

- mortgages

- constructive trusts

- Party Wall Act disputes

- agricultural tenancies

- adverse possession

Laura has advocacy experience in the Privy Council (Permission Hearings and Substantive Appeals), the Court of Appeal, the High Court, including the Technology and Construction Court, the County Court, the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal and the Rent Assessment Committee.

Employment

Extensive experience in the Employment Tribunal and experience in the Employment Appeal Tribunal, representing both employers and employees in unfair and constructive dismissal cases; sex, race and disability claims; wage disputes including holiday pay, and equal pay claims. Laura also has experience of restrictive covenant cases, and has a particular interest in disability discrimination claims.

Personal Injury

Claimant work, including a number of high value complex claims. Laura has dealt with a large number of employer liability claims involving multiple breaches of statutory duties. She is also experienced in dealing with chronic pain cases. She is happy to attend round table negotiations and settlement meetings.

Privy Council

Bundhoo v Mauritius

Privy Council (Mauritius), 25 April 2007

(civil procedure, sale of land by judicial auction)

Daby v Mauritius

Privy Council (Mauritius), 13 October 2008

(nuisance, measure of damages, water law, civil procedure)

Court of Appeal

Winter v Traditional & Contemporary Contracts Ltd Court of Appeal (Civil Division), 20 December 2006

(costs in the Lands Tribunal)

[2006] EWCA Civ 1740; [2007] 2 All E.R. 343; [2007] R.V.R. 122; [2007] 3 E.G. 124 (C.S.)

Winter v Traditional & Contemporary Contracts Ltd Court of Appeal (Civil Division), 07 November 2007

(restrictive covenants affecting freehold land, compensation, loss of amenity)

[2007] EWCA Civ 1088; [2008] 1 E.G.L.R. 80; [2008] 3 E.G. 180; [2007] R.V.R. 353; [2008] J.P.L. 1011; [2007] 46 E.G. 177 (C.S.); (2007) 104(45) L.S.G. 30; [2007] N.P.C. 117

Raja v Van Hoogstraten (Application to Strike Out) Court of Appeal (Civil Division), 21 July 2004

(strike out, civil procedure, right to fair trial)

[2004] EWCA Civ 968; [2004] 4 All E.R. 793; [2005] C.P. Rep. 6; Times, July 27, 2004; Independent, July 27, 2004

Employment Appeal Tribunal

Mehmet (t/a Rose Hotel Group) v Aduma

Employment Appeal Tribunal, 30 May 2007

(race discrimination, unauthorised deductions from wages)

Premium Care Homes Ltd v Osborne

Employment Appeal Tribunal, 01 September 2006

(procedure, non-compliance, striking out)

Housing Law Practitioners Association.

Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.

Employment Law Bar Association.

Amnesty International.

Chamber music, horse-riding.