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St Philips Chambers Offices
St Philips Chambers
55 TEMPLE ROW
BIRMINGHAM
B2 5LS
England
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Anthony Verduyn
Work Department
St Philips Business & Property
Position
Real estate litigation (including overage, restrictive covenants, boundaries, easements and trusts of land); commercial and residential landlord and tenant (including dilapidations, break notices and forfeiture); land registration; professional negligence in property matters (including conveyancers, surveyors and brokers); and social housing.
Career
Called 1993, Lincoln’s Inn. Head of St Philips Chambers Real Estate Team; Recorder (Civil, 2009; Private Family, 2013; Public Law Family, 2017); Judge, First Tier Tribunal Property Chamber (formerly, Deputy Adjudicator to HM Land Registry (2008) and Lawyer Chairman of the Residential Property Tribunal (2006)); Deputy Chancellor of Lichfield Diocese (2019); ADR Group Accredited Mediator and CEDR trained mediation advocate. Recent cases of interest: Griffiths v Grayburn (2019) – appeal before the Chancellor on construction of conveyance; Bryant Homes Ltd v Stein Management Ltd [2017] 1 P & CR 6 – restrictive covenants and money payment obligations; Monopro Ltd v Central Hall Developments Ltd [2017] EWHC 1509 (TCC) – committal of landlord and company director in case concerning failure to insure commercial property; Yedina v Yedin [2017] EWHC 3319 (Ch) – challenging a deed and beneficial interests (12 day trial); Harrison v Brading [2016] EWHC 3267 (Ch) – boundaries and adverse possession.
Memberships
Property Bar Association; Midland Chancery and Commercial Bar Association; Birmingham Law Society (Property and Development Committee member).
Education
Attended University of Durham, Collingwood College, BA (Hons) first; University of Oxford, Wolfson College, D Phil.; and City University. Contributor to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and academic journals.
Leisure
Interests include history, fine wine and foreigh travel.
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Property and construction
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Anthony Verduyn –St Philips Chambers ‘Anthony has excellent knowledge of a range of legal issues. A real team player.’
St Philips Chambers is ‘an excellent set with very capable counsel’ who advise domestic and international clients on a range of property law. John Randall KC has ‘encyclopaedic knowledge of property law’ and is currently acting in Cayman Shores Development Ltd v Registrar of Lands, a high-profile property rights dispute in the Cayman Islands, while John Brennan successfully acted on behalf of a commercial development owner in GHC Global Holdings Ltd v MK Builders Merchants Ltd, a land recovery claim. The ‘thorough and authoritative’ advocate Anthony Verduyn has extensive experience of property litigation, and John Aldis specialises in boundaries disputes and adverse possession cases. Michelle Caney joined the team in August 2023.