Published comments

"Timothy Fancourt QC is acclaimed for his "first-rate legal brain and impressive, enthusiastic advocacy". His highlights include acting for Hiscox in a nuisance dispute". Chambers and Partners 2010 (Real Estate Litigation Section).

"Rising star Timothy Fancourt QC is an expert real estate litigator and "a marvellous chap who is very proficient on the technical side" Chambers and Partners 2010 (Agriculture and Rural Affairs Section).

"The "incredible incisive" Timothy Fancourt QC "thoroughly impresses". Legal 500 2009.

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Timothy Fancourt QC

Called 1987
Silk 2003
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In recent years, Tim Fancourt has appeared in the House of Lords in a case about statutory default notices served on former tenants, in the Privy Council in a proprietary estoppel case, in the Court of Appeal in cases involving the extinguishment of easements, rectification of leases and set-off of claims against former landlords by tenants under new tenancies. He has also been briefed on several of the largest rent review arbitrations to be contested in the last two years. A full list of recent reported cases is set out below.

Education

Whitgift School and Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge; BA (1986); MA (1990).

Professional

November 1987: called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn as major scholar. Joined Falcon Chambers in January 1989.

Elected member of Bar Council 1996-2001.

Member of Property Bar Association Committee 2001-2003.

Vice-Chairman, Standards Committee, Bar Standards Board 2006 - 2010.

Recorder 2009

Recent Cases

Doleman v Shaw [2009] EWCA Civ 283 (guarantor under AGA not released upon disclaimer of lease)

Scottish & Newcastle plc v Raguz [2008] UKHL 65, [2008] 1 WLR 2494 (validity of notice served on former tenant where rent review outstanding; indemnity claim against assignee of former tenant).

Royal Bank of Scotland plc v Victoria Street (No.3) Ltd [2008] PLSCS 294 (reasonableness of landlord’s objection to weak assignee where substantial assignor remained liable on tenant covenants).

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Publications

Cumulative supplements to Megarry's The Rent Acts (11th ed.) (Sweet & Maxwell) (1989), (1991), (1993).

Enforceability of Landlord and Tenant Covenants (Sweet & Maxwell) (2nd ed.) (2006).

Megarry's Assured Tenancies (Sweet & Maxwell) (2nd ed.), (1999).

Contributing editor of Property section of Bullen & Leake & Jacob’s Precedents of Pleadings (14th ed.) (2000).