Philip Sissons

Called 2005
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Philip's practice includes all areas of commercial and residential landlord and tenant matters as well as real property disputes and he has extensive experience of proceedings in the County Courts and the High Court as well as regularly appearing in the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal, the Lands Tribunal and before the Land Registry Adjudicator. Most recently he has been involved in High Court proceedings relating to the interpretation of rent review provisions in a lease of commercial premises as well as a case involving the application of the single farm payment scheme to a share farming arrangement. Other recent cases include an appeal to the High Court against a decision in a rent review arbitration in relation to the lease of a public house.

Philip regularly advises on and appears in cases concerning business tenancies (including 1954 Act renewal proceedings), residential possession proceedings, service charge disputes, boundary and Party Wall Act disputes. Insolvency matters involving real property issues, as well as restrictive covenants and easements. Philip also has a particular interest in, and experience of, cases involving mortgage disputes ranging from straightforward possession claims to more complex cases concerning fraud and undue influence.

Education

2000 - 2003, St Catherine's College, Oxford - B.A. Jurisprudence.

(1st Class, College Exhibition in Law 2002).

2003 - 2004, St Catherine's College, Oxford - B.C.L.

Professional

2004 - 2005, Inns of Court School of Law, Bar Vocational Course (Very Competent).

Called, Inner Temple 2005 - BVC Major Scholarship.

Recent Cases

Dodds v West Register (Public Houses III) Ltd [2008] All ER (D) 246 (Rent Review, appeal against determination by an arbitrator on the rent review of a public house under sections 68 and 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996).

London & Continental Railways Ltd and Union Railways (North) Ltd v Kent County Council. LTL 3/7/2008 (2008) 23 EG 117 (Compulsory purchase, jurisdiction of lands tribunal where acquiring authority not served a notice to treat).

Re A Company (2006) [2006] EWHC 3436 (Ch) (Insolvency and apportionment of rent, entitlement of landlord to petition for bankruptcy on grounds of rent arrears where lease brought to an end between rent days.)

Publications

Woodfall: Landlord and Tenant Bulletin, Contributing Editor.

Contributor to New Law Journal, Property Update.

"Section 21 Notices and the Tenancy Deposit Scheme" Landlord and Tenant Bulletin, April 2007.

"The effect of a voluntary arrangement on the right to forfeit for non-payment of rent" Thomas v Ken Thomas and the Powerhouse litigation" Landlord & Tenant Review, Vol. 11, Issue 1.