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Listed as a Leading Junior in Property Litigation. Legal 500 (2009)

Also of note is the 'conscientious and excellent advice' of new entrant...Tamsin Cox" Legal 500(2008).

Tamsin Cox

Called 2005
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Areas of practice All aspects of commercial and residential landlord and tenant and real property law.

Education

New College, Oxford (BA Literae Humaniores).

City University Diploma in Law.

Professional

Inns of Court School of Law, Bar Vocational Course (Very Competent, top 10%).

Called, Lincoln's Inn (2005).

Recent Cases

Patel v Keles [2009] EWCA Civ 1187: Considers the requirement of 'intention' in the context of a landlord seeking to terminate a lease of business premises and relying on section 30(1)(g) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.

Hicklane Properties Ltd v Bradbury Investments Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 691: The Court of Appeal held that the judge at first instance had been entitled to find that the parties to a lease had a common intention that the freehold interest to be acquired pursuant to a tenant's right of pre-emption was to be valued at open market value subject to the lease, rather than with vacant possession as stated therein. The lease was rectified in order to reflect the true agreement.

Graves v Graves [2007] EWCA Civ 660 (An assured shorthold tenancy agreement between a former husband and wife was subject to an implied condition that if housing benefit was not payable the tenancy would come to an end).

Bexley LBC v Maison Maurice Ltd [2006] EWHC 3192 (Ch) (A local authority was estopped from denying that a property owner had a permanent means of access to a highway where the owner had reasonably expected that it would receive a new, permanent and safe access in substitution for its old access without additional payment after it had complied with planning conditions imposed by the local authority).

Publications

Contributor to The Lawyer's Factbook.

Contributor to the New Law Journal.