Property services

Henderson Chambers fields a very strong set of barristers who regularly act on behalf of property developers, insurers, residential social landlords and others within the sector, as well as companies within the construction industry.

Recent cases undertaken by barristers at Henderson Chambers include the following:

Property
  • Acting for substantial property investment vehicles as to the full range of property and development issues
  • Acting for substantial industrial property companies as to the full range of leasehold and freehold property and development issues. 
  • Acting for substantial public house estates in the full range of property issues
Technology and construction
  • Hurricane Katrina claims: ongoing advice relating to insurance claims arising out of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans (details confidential)
Health and safety
  • Advising a local authority following the escape of carbon monoxide into domestic accommodation
  • Defending a company which undertakes legionella risk assessments in nursing homes in a prosecution brought by the HSE
  • Defending a landlord charged with an offence under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations, for failure to ensure that her tenanted properties had valid gas safety certificates
  • A number of claims arising out of fires at commercial premises by the insurers of the affected businesses
  • Acting for a landowner in a high-value agricultural flooding claim in North Yorkshire
Finance and consumer credit
  • Possession claims arising out of mortgage defaults