Published comments

"Solicitors point to Emily Windsor as a "client –friendly and thorough barrister with a promising future". She is very good at landlord and tenant issues and adverse possession cases, and recently appeared in Hopper v Hopper in the High Court". Chambers and Partners 2010 (Real Estate Litigation Section).

“Another outstanding junior is Emily Windsor, who specialises in various aspects of property litigation, including commercial and residential landlord and tenant matters, restrictive covenants, easements, and agricultural law generally. She is renowned for being “extremely personable and presents very well in conference”. Chambers and Partners 2010 (Agriculture and Rural Affairs)

“The “cool and charming” Emily Windsor is instructed in large City rent reviews as well as property-related London 2012 instructions”. Legal 500 2009.

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Emily Windsor

Called 1995
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Emily Windsor specialises in all aspects of property litigation, with particular emphasis on commercial property disputes and agriculture. She has extensive litigation experience at all levels and and in the past few years has appeared in cases concerning break clauses, development agreements, proprietary estoppel, rent review, nuisance, leasehold enfranchisement and agricultural holdings. She has also recently advised on some major redevelopment projects and the purchase of several high-value property portfolios.

Education

Worcester College, Oxford: BA Jurisprudence (1993)

Université Panthéon - Assas (Paris II): DSU European Law (1994). Rotary International Foundation Scholar.

Professional

Gray's Inn Steen Scholarship

Member of the Agricultural Law Association Committee 1997-1999

Elected member of the Bar Council 2000-2005

Chairman of the Young Barristers' Committee of the Bar Council 2002

Member of the Bar Council's Bar Standards Board 2006-2010.

Chair of the BSB's Diversity Committee 2007-2009

Joint Vice-Chair of the BSB's Education and Training Committee 2007-2012

Recent Cases

Majorstake Ltd v Curtis [2006] 3 WLR 1114 (opposition to enfranchisement on redevelopment grounds and statutory construction).

Hopper v Hooper [2008] EWHC 228 (proprietary estoppel)

Thomson v Church Commissioners for England [2006] 43 EG 180 (succession under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986).

Faircare Investments Ltd v Earlrose Golf and Leisure Ltd [2006] PLSCS 44 (registered title and agency).

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Publications

Bullen & Leake & Jacob's Precedents of Pleadings (14th ed.) (Contributing Editor - Property Section)

Woodfall Bulletin (Joint Editor)