Anthony Verduyn > Chambers of Sara Lewis KC > Birmingham, England > Barrister Profile

Chambers of Sara Lewis KC
St Philips Chambers
55 TEMPLE ROW
BIRMINGHAM
B2 5LS
England

Work Department

St Philips Business & Property

Position

Real estate litigation (including overage, restrictive covenants, boundaries, easements and trusts of land); commercial and residential landlord and tenant (including dilapidations, break notices and forfeiture); land registration; professional negligence in property matters (including conveyancers, surveyors and brokers); and social housing.

Career

Called 1993, Lincoln’s Inn.

Deputy Chancellor of the Diocese of Lichfield (2019)

ADR Group Accredited mediator

Recorder (Civil) 2009

Deputy Adjudicator to HM Land Registry 2008

Lawyer Chairman in Residential Property Tribunal Service 2006

Member of Birmingham Law Society Property and Development Committee

Recorder (Private Family 2013 and Public Law 2017)

Tribunal Judge, First Tier Tribunal, Property Chamber (Land Registration and Residential Property divisions) 2013

Memberships

Property Bar Association; Midland Chancery and Commercial Bar Association; Birmingham Law Society (Property and Development Committee member).

Education

Attended University of Durham, Collingwood College, BA (Hons) first; University of Oxford, Wolfson College, D Phil.; and City University. Contributor to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and academic journals.

Leisure

Interests include history, fine wine and foreigh travel.

Lawyer Rankings

Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Property and construction

(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1

Anthony VerduynSt Philips Chambers ‘Anthony has excellent knowledge of a range of legal issues. A real team player.’

St Philips Chambers is ‘an excellent set with very capable counsel’ who advise domestic and international clients on a range of property law. John Randall KC has ‘encyclopaedic knowledge of property law’ and is currently acting in Cayman Shores Development Ltd v Registrar of Lands, a high-profile property rights dispute in the Cayman Islands, while John Brennan successfully acted on behalf of a commercial development owner in GHC Global Holdings Ltd v MK Builders Merchants Ltd, a land recovery claim. The ‘thorough and authoritative’ advocate Anthony Verduyn has extensive experience of property litigation, and John Aldis specialises in boundaries disputes and adverse possession cases. Michelle Caney joined the team in August 2023.