Patricia is particularly noted for her expertise in homelessness and landlord and tenant in Chambers & Partners UK. She specialises in all aspects of housing, property and related public law, including homelessness, landlord and tenant and leasehold disputes.
Patricia is co-chair of the Housing Law Practitioners’ Association, and a member of the Bar Council’s Race Training Delivery Panel.
Patricia is a Fee Paid Judge in the Property Chamber and Employment Tribunal. She is also the author of Security of Tenure in the Social Housing Sector in England (2023).
Havering LBC v Eales (2018) HLR 46
Simpson-Lowe v Croydon LBC [2012] EWCA Civ 131
Yosief v Birmingham City Council [2011] EWCA Civ 355
R (On the application of Glover) v Haringey LBC. All ER(D) 89, Aug 2010
Circle Thirty-Three Housing Trust Ltd v Segovia (2009) UKUT 203 (LC)
R (on the application of Lusamba) v Islington LBC [2008] EWHC 1149 (Admin)
Patricia’s recent cases include the following:
Successfully representing a number of tenants in disputed succession claims, including non-statutory succession claims.
Successfully representing a tenant accused of unlawful subletting.
Securing a favourable outcome in a mandatory possession claim, by arguing the landlord’s reliance on the Metropolitan Police’s gangs’ database matrix amounted to racial discrimination.
Securing the withdrawal of committal proceedings against a number of disabled clients
Getting proceedings against a non-owner spouse struck out
Housing Law Practitioners’ Association
Property Bar Association
Chambers and Partners, 2016
BSc – Southampton University
C.P.E (now known as GDL) – City University
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