Housing, property dispute resolution, public law.

Partner specialising in housing, public law and residential and commercial leasehold disputes.

Prior to training as a solicitor, Giles was a university senior lecturer in History of Art and cultural philosophy. Law qualifications at City University and College of Law. Trained Anthony Gold; qualified 2008; solicitor in housing and public law team; partner 2013. Extensive experience in housing possession, homelessness and disrepair in County Court and High Court and has acted in Court of Appeal and Supreme Court matters. Administrative and public law challenges to local authority decisions and failings. Acts for leaseholders and freeholders in residential leasehold disputes in LVT and County Court, and for leaseholders in build defect claims. Chair of Housing Law Practitioners Association between 2011 and 2017. Giles is a co-author of Housing Conditions: Tenants Right, published by LAG, and is the founder and editor of the Nearly Legal: Housing Law News and Comment website. Giles co-drafted what is now the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2019, and gives evidence to select and bill committees in the House of Commons. Giles also writes for sector journals such as Inside Housing, and for national press including The Guardian and the Sunday Times. Giles has appeared on BBC and lTV news and documentary programmes, and Channel 4 Dispatches. He has also been a guest on BBC Radio 4 and local radio.

Basic French.

Housing Law Practitioners Association.

University of Leeds (1988 MA Social History of Art); City University (2005 CPE); College of Law (2006 LPC).