Bindmans LLP

Housing and Public Law.

Solicitor, Housing and Public Law

Christian frequently acts for groups of tenants and leaseholders in claims against landlords and freeholders, as well as acting for homeless applicants, and social services users in claims against local authorities. He often acts for vulnerable clients, including those without capacity to litigate. He is frequently instructed by the Official Solicitor.

The current focus of much of Christian’s work is enforcing fire safety measures in residential buildings. Since 2019 and continuing through 2020, Christian has been helping several large residents’ groups bring fire safety claims against the freeholders and developers of their buildings, requiring the replacement of unsafe cladding, insulation, and cavity barriers, and claiming significant payments of damages.

Christian continues to advise and represent clients across all residential landlord and tenant matters, including possession, eviction, disrepair, harassment, and all tenancy related disputes.

He is highly experienced in acting for clients at all court levels. In both 2017 and 2018 he represented clients in the Supreme Court. He is an experienced advocate and has been a duty solicitor on county court housing possession lists for many years.

Christian joined Bindmans in September 2018. He has been an LSC/LAA supervisor of housing cases since 2006.

Christian is co-chair of the Law Society Housing Law Committee.

Christian graduated with a degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester in 1997. He then completed the GDL in 1998, and the LPC in 1999.