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Batchelors

CHARLES HOUSE, 35 WIDMORE ROAD, BROMLEY, BR1 1RW, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 8768 7000
Fax:
Fax 020 8768 7045
DX:
117614 BROMLEY-7
Web:
www.batchelors.co.uk
Email:
London, Bromley

Mary Martil

Tel:
Work +44 20 8768 7032
Email:
Batchelors

Work Department

Housing management.

Position

Experienced in dealing with anti-social behaviour and disrepair; also takes a special interest in leasehold issues, empty dwellings and cases involving fraud, including sub-letting and right to buy. She also enjoys policy work and drafting tenancy documentation. Mary is well-known as a trainer, for developing courses and working intensively with clients, and for providing seminars for external bodies. She currently gives regular legal update seminars on behalf of the Chartered Institute of Housing’s London branch.

Career

Trained Dakers Seymour & Co, Brighton; qualified 1989; Thomas Eggar & Co; supervising solicitor Brighton Housing Trust’s Eastbourne Housing Aid and Legal Centre; strategic housing lawyer then council’s principal housing lawyer in the borough solicitor’s team at Southwark Council; Marsons Solicitors 2003, partner 2004; partner Batchelors 2010 to date.

Member

Founder member and current chair Social Housing Law Association.

Education

Westwood Girls, Reading; University of Warwick (1983 LLB Hons 2(2)).

Leisure

Karate, kick boxing, book group, interior decorating, socialising.

Practice Areas

Property - litigation; Public sector; Social housing

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