John Summers

Called 2004
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Areas of practice All aspects of commercial and residential landlord and tenant and real property law.

Education

University College, Oxford (Scholar) (1999-2002) B. A. Jurisprudence (1st class), (M.A. 2007).

Proxime Accessit Gibbs Prize in Law (2001), Oxford University.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (2002-2003) LL. M. (1st class).

Gareth Jones Prize for the Law of Restitution (2003), Cambridge University.

Professional

2004: Called to the Bar (Lincoln's Inn: Lord Denning Scholar).

2006 - 2007: Judicial Assistant to the Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, the Lord Rodger of Earlsferry and the Lord Brown of Eaton under Heywood.

Lecturer in Law, University College, Oxford and Pembroke College, Oxford.

Recent Cases

King v. Udlaw Ltd (2008) Lands Tribunal, [2008] 2 EGLR 99 (Whether a holiday home is a 'dwelling' for the purposes of the service charge provisions in sections 18 - 30 Landlord and Tenant Act 1985).

Basildon DC v. Wahlen [2006] EWCA Civ 326, [2006] 1 WLR 2744 (Housing Act 1985: landlord's action for possession met by tenant's counterclaim for the right to buy).