Elizabeth England

Elizabeth is a member of the Property Team at Five Paper and a specialist in social housing and landlord & tenant law.

Before joining the Bar in 2014, she qualified as a solicitor in 2008 and as a solicitor-advocate in 2012. In 2018 Elizabeth was listed in the ‘Hot 100’ feature by News on the Block as an influential landlord & tenant professional and has retained that position since.

Elizabeth has a wealth of experience in property law and in 2005 was part of a government pilot scheme providing housing law advice via webcam to members of the public.

Elizabeth is on the Consulting Editorial Board and a Contributing Author for Lexis Nexis in the area of social housing and residential landlord and tenant law. Elizabeth provides maintained educational resources on homelessness, possession and residential landlord and tenant matters. She is also a regular contributor to the Lexis Q&A facility and committee member for the Social Housing Law Association.

Elizabeth's Social Housing practice covers all areas of housing law, including anti-social behaviour, possession proceedings, right to buy, unlawful eviction and harassment, allocation of social housing, disrepair, housing management, and injunctions.

She regularly deals with Equality Act and Human Rights arguments and has advised and represented clients in a range of issues such as security of tenure, death and succession; interpretation of lease and tenancy clauses; housing conditions; compliance with policies; and the proportionality of eviction.

Elizabeth regularly acts for local authorities in homelessness appeals and judicial review proceedings concerning housing duties.

In addition to Social Housing, Elizabeth also receives instructions within the fields of Landlord & Tenant and Real Property, including advising on and represents landlords and tenants alike in the renewal of tenancies, rent review, service charge disputes, disrepair and leasehold enfranchisement for residential leasehold property; litigation involving easements, rights of way, the beneficial ownership of property, trusts of land, proprietary estoppel, adverse possession and boundary disputes.