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Exchange Chambers

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Brynmor Adams

Brynmor Adams

Exchange Chambers, North West

Work Department

Property and public law

Position

Brynmor is a property specialist. The Legal 500 describes him as “highly intelligent and astute barrister. He has superb attention to detail and gets to the nub of a matter very quickly. Clients love his no-nonsense approach”.

Brynmor combines and excellent technical grasp of property law and formidable advocacy with a pragmatic approach to dispute resolution. Clients value his strategic and commercial approach to litigation.

His practice covers all areas of property law. This ranges from real property disputes about boundaries, easements and land registration through to commercial and residential landlord and tenant matters.

He is experienced in private sector and public sector property disputes.  Brynmor is a member of the B Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown. He undertakes a variety of work for central government departments. He also acts extensively for local government and for social landlords. The directories also recognise him as a leader in the fields of public law, local government and social housing. He has particular expertise where property law issues interact with issues of public, human rights and equality law.

Brynmor is based in Manchester but practices nationwide. He is the go-to property junior on the Northern Circuit and typically appears against experienced and specialist counsel. Brynmor has experience of appearing at all levels of court and tribunal. He has appeared on numerous occasions before the Property Chamber of the First-Tier Tribunal in leasehold and land registration disputes, and on appeals to the Upper Tribunal and the Court of Appeal.

Brynmor is ranked in both the leading directories. Chambers and Partners has described him as “a gentleman with great technical ability… he is also good with clients” and as “really good and has a very commercial approach.” The Legal 500 says that he is “client-focused” and “an able and unflappable advocate who demonstrates legal maturity way beyond his year of call”.

Brynmor is a committee member of the Property Bar Association and of the Manchester Business and Property Courts Property Sub-Forum. He has helped to develop the Social Housing Law Association in the North.

Career

Called 2008

Languages

French

Memberships

Property Bar Association (PBA)

Manchester BPC Property Sub-Forum

Northern Business and Property Bar Association (NBPBA)

Chancery Bar Association (ChBA)

Social Housing Law Association (SHLA)

Lincoln’s Inn European Law Group

Education

Christ Church, Oxford – MA Jurisprudence (Course II), Law with Law Studies in Europe

Université de Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) – Certificat supérieur de droit français et européen

Before starting practice at the Bar, Brynmor was a stagiaire at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg where he drafted judgments and decisions on applications from the United Kingdom.

Lincoln’s Inn – Inns of Court School of Law Major Scholarship, Hardwicke Scholarship, Peter Duffy Human Rights Scholarship and Sunley Scholarship.

Leisure

Brynmor teaches advocacy to pupils and new practitioners for Lincoln’s Inn. He is also a mentor for the Lincoln’s Inn Pupillage Foundation Scheme.

He is secretary of his local cycle club and at weekends can be found cycling up hills in the Peak District.

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