Cecily practises all aspects of property law, including both residential and commercial landlord and tenant law and real property. She likes difficult legal problems.
Cecily has a particular interest in mortgage law, in particular the more difficult mortgage possessions. With her colleague, Stephanie Tozer KC, she authored a new book, Mortgage Receivership: Law and Practice (Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing, October 2018). Cecily also has extensive experience in Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 lease renewals including opposition, complicated forfeiture claims, in property cases with issues as to trust or company ownership, in Party Wall etc Act 1996 work, and, with Stephen Jourdan KC, on property issues arising out of the sanctioning of individuals.
In October 2022, Cecily was shortlisted for the John Collins Pro Bono Excellence Award at the Bar Pro Bono Awards.
Current and recent work includes:
Mortgage work
- Complicated mortgage claims including those raising regulatory issues under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and unfair relationships under the Consumer Credit Act 1974
- Mortgage subrogation
- Consolidation and tacking
- Mortgage receivers’ possession claims, and cases on breaches of receiver’s duties
- Cases on how to structure mortgage documentation
Real property
- Restrictive covenants including applications for discharge or modification under s84 of the Law of Property Act 1925
- Overage and other development issues
- Easements and boundaries
- Party Wall etc Act 1996 including issues on s10 jurisdiction, and limitation
- Land registration, including rights post completion and pre registration
- Rent charges and variation of estate management schemes
- Vendor purchaser summons and effect of Russian sanctions regime on buying property
Trusts of land
- TOLATA claims in difficult family circumstances
- Trusts in the context of bankruptcy
Commercial leasehold
- Unlawful forfeiture and relief from forfeiture in valuable commercial property
- Opposed lease renewal under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954
- Unopposed lease renewals with dispute as to Covid-19 clauses
- Rent review
- Effect of Russian sanctions regime on leasehold obligations and rights
Residential leasehold
- Licence for alterations in high value residential property
- Enfranchisement with issues about split freehold ownership
- Service charges in high value residential property
"Cecily is excellent - a quietly tenacious advocate who seeks carefully and effectively to persuade the judge."Chambers and Partners UK Guide 2023
"Cecily Crampin is extremely technical. She's intellectually very bright, and a delightful advocate for clients."Chambers and Partners UK Guide 2023
"Cecily combines her strong drafting skills with strategic thinking, focusing on the end game from the start and charting a course to get there."Legal 500 2023
Cecily Crampin is widely acknowledged as an exceptionally promising property junior with a sophisticated practice. Her caseload includes landlord and tenant, mortgage and real property work. "Cecily is a solid advocate in both the tribunal and court." "My go-to for mortgage work; she is extremely thorough and bright." Recent work: Acted in a party wall appeal related to whether the join of a basement slab wall on one side of a boundary was a party wall under the Party Wall Act 1996.Chambers UK Guide 2022 (Real Estate Litigation)
‘ Cecily is a go-to barrister. She is a very tenacious advocate with a firm and nuanced grasp of the detail and the technicalities of the law, but a very human touch in dealing with clients. ’Legal 500 2022
Widely acknowledged as an exceptionally promising property junior with a sophisticated practice. Her caseload includes landlord and tenant, mortgage and real property work. She is also experienced in possession disputes. Strengths: "She has a brain the size of a planet." "Cecily is very easy to deal with, she is very calm and collected but ferocious and fiery before a judge." "Very diligent, approachable and clear in her advice."Chambers and Partners UK Guide 2021 (Real Estate Litigation)
'Cecily is very clever, well organised and always well prepared. She is approachable, a team player and easy to work with. We have had a number of notable successes for one particular client who is very impressed with her.’Legal 500 2021
Widely acknowledged as an exceptionally promising property junior with a sophisticated practice. Her caseload includes landlord and tenant, mortgage and real property work. She is also experienced in party wall work. Strengths: "Incredibly bright, capable of digging into the detail and a very good advocate." "Effective in cross-examination – very calm and impressive." "She does forensic, detailed analysis on the more complex work." Recent work: Continued to act for the Crown Estate Commissioners in a Court of Appeal matter concerning the extent of the no-Act assumption for lease extensions.Chambers and Partners UK Guide 2020 (Real Estate Litigation)
"Excellent on party walls and other neighbourly matters."Legal 500 2020
"Widely acknowledged as an exceptionally promising property junior, with a sophisticated practice. Her caseload includes landlord and tenant, mortgage and real property work. She is also experienced in party wall work. Strengths: 'A very clever and commercial team player.' 'A real authority on the Party Wall Act.' Recent work: Acted for the Crown Estate Commissioners in an application under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, concerning the share of premium payable on a lease extension to the freeholder and the head leaseholder." Chambers UK Guide 2019 (Real Estate Litigation)More published comments