Cecily has a broad property practice covering all aspects of real property and landlord and tenant law, both as sole counsel and often as junior counsel on larger pieces of litigation.

She is the co-author with Stephanie Tozer QC of Mortgage Receivership: Law and Practice (Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing, October 2018).

Reported cases: Country Trade v Noakes [2011] UKUT 407 (LC) (LVT had wrongly introduced in its decisions its own assessment of the market norm for managing agents’ fees); St John’s Wood Leases Limited v O’Neil [2012] UKUT 374 (LC) (s20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985); Patel v Peters [2014] EWCA Civ 335 (s10(7) of the Party Wall Act 1996); Trustees of the Sloane Stanley Estate v Mundy [2016] UKUT 0223 (LC);Whitehall Court London Ltd v Crown Estate Commissioners [2018] EWCA Civ 1704 (no-Act assumption in valuations for lease extensions extends to the block containing the subject flat).

Called 2008; Middle Temple. Completed pupillage at Tanfield Chambers in September 2009. Practised at Tanfield from September 2009 to April 2016. Moved to Falcon Chambers April 2016.

Property Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association and NARA.

Dame Alice Harpur School Bedford; Oxford University (1997 BA (Oxon); 2006 DPhil (Oxon)); Manchester University (1998 MSc); City University (2007 CPE; 2008 BVC)

Walking and Reading.