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Housing & Community CarePublic LawCivil Law

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Year of call: 1999

Patricia is particularly noted for her expertise in homelessness and landlord and tenant in Chambers & Partners UK. She specialises in all aspects of housing, property and related public law, including homelessness, landlord and tenant and leasehold disputes.

Patricia is co-chair of the Housing Law Practitioners’ Association, and a member of the Bar Council’s Race Training Delivery Panel.

Patricia is a Fee Paid Judge in the Property Chamber and Employment Tribunal. She is also the author of Security of Tenure in the Social Housing Sector in England (2023).

Reported cases

Havering LBC v Eales (2018) HLR 46 Simpson-Lowe v Croydon LBC [2012] EWCA Civ 131 Yosief v Birmingham City Council [2011] EWCA Civ 355 R (On the application of Glover) v Haringey LBC. All ER(D) 89, Aug 2010 Circle Thirty-Three Housing Trust Ltd v Segovia (2009) UKUT 203 (LC) R (on the application of Lusamba) v Islington LBC [2008] EWHC 1149 (Admin)

Patricia’s recent cases include the following:

Security of tenure

Successfully representing a number of tenants in disputed succession claims, including non-statutory succession claims.

Successfully representing a tenant accused of unlawful subletting.

Securing a favourable outcome in a mandatory possession claim, by arguing the landlord’s reliance on the Metropolitan Police’s gangs’ database matrix amounted to racial discrimination.

Anti-social behaviour

Securing the withdrawal of committal proceedings against a number of disabled clients

Relationship breakdown

Getting proceedings against a non-owner spouse struck out

Housing Law Practitioners’ Association Property Bar Association

BSc – Southampton University C.P.E (now known as GDL) – City University