David Lonsdale

AREAS OF EXPERTISE Civil Commercial Commercial Chancery Commercial Landlord and Tenant Company & Partnership Corporate Defending Professionals Landlord & Tenant Mediation Professional Discipline Professional Negligence Property Co-Ownership Wills, Trusts & Estates

David is a senior member of the 33 Bedford Row Civil and Commercial Practice Group. He has nearly 30 years' experience specialising in property law and commercial contracts. He has appeared in cases at all levels of court including the Court of Appeal.  

David is co-author, together with Piers Harrison, of the leading practitioner book on leasehold enfranchisement, Leasehold Enfranchisement: Law and Practice. This specialist book has been warmly welcomed by the professional community as well as by lay clients as a first port of call for careful and balanced advice in an area of law that is notoriously complex. 

In addition, David  regularly advises in cases of disputed restrictive covenants, easements, rights to light and property development and planning generally. He is fully conversant with both commercial and domestic property issues, including issues relating to the provision of public housing and the maintenance of housing stock general including houses in multiple occupation.   

BA (Oxon).