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Email: clerks@falcon-chambers.com
DX: 408 Lond/Chancery Lane

Areas of practice

We have traditionally been known for our expertise in the law of landlord and tenant. All members of chambers are expert in this area, including problems concerning:

• commercial property
• rent review and arbitration
• residential landlord and tenant
• leasehold enfranchisement
• agricultural holdings and tenancies and agricultural production controls

However, over the years, we have also come to be recognised as experts in the more general areas of property and real estate law, including:

• easements and highways
• restrictive covenants
• boundary disputes
• mortgages
• commonhold
• trusts, proprietary estoppel and rights of co-habitees
• conveyancing
• registered land
• overage and planning agreements
• options and rights of pre-emption
• property-related insolvency law
• professional negligence, particularly of solicitors and surveyors
• human rights implications of property law

In addition some members of chambers are also experts in the fields of

• town and country planning
• compulsory purchase
• building and engineering disputes
• competition and European law
• property taxation, in particular stamp duty land tax
• mines and minerals
• commons, village greens and manorial rights
• off-shore and riparian issues
• sporting rights
• partnership
• rating
• the Electronic Communications Code and other statutory codes

Many of the leading legal textbooks and practitioner guides on these subjects are written or edited by members of Chambers. Click on Library for details.

Our work in the commercial property sphere means that we have a considerable expertise in arbitration law and practice, and with problems involving valuers and the principles of valuation. Indeed our work in the fields of commercial rent review and leasehold enfranchisement (which concerns the valuation of high value residential properties) means that members of chambers are well placed and often asked to act in other disputes where valuation is in issue. Such work includes assessments of damages for loss of or harm to a business, surveyors' negligence, dissolution of partnerships, rating, compulsory purchase and the valuation of a business or property purchased pursuant to an option.