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Camilla Lamont
Position
Camilla has been consistently recognised as a leading junior in real estate litigation by Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners, and as a national and global leader by WWL UK Bar and WWL Global Real Estate. She has twice been named Real Estate Junior of the Year at the Chambers UK Bar Awards, in both 2017 and 2021, and is currently ranked as a Tier 1 senior junior in real estate litigation.
Camilla has a well established reputation in the field as a user friendly adviser and advocate who combines intellectual acumen with an understanding of the commercial realities facing clients. Her clients include developers, institutional landlords and national retailers as well as individuals. She has appeared in high profile property cases in both the High Court and Court of Appeal.
Her practice covers all aspects of real property including conveyancing and title disputes. She regularly acts for clients in relation to development agreements as well as options, restrictive covenants, easements and rights to light that affect property development. She also handles property related environmental and professional negligence claims.
Her landlord and tenant practice encompasses, amongst other things, dilapidations, tenant default and insolvency, forfeiture, break clauses, rent review, service charges, ESG and 1954 Act renewals. Camilla also has considerable experience in disputes relating to the management of both residential and commercial premises.
Camilla has previously held posts as a tutor and lecturer of land law, equity & trusts and commercial leases at Oxford University. In 2019 she was appointed a fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies (University of London) and is a member of its advisory board. She has published widely in her field and has been an editor of Hill & Redman on Landlord and Tenantsince 2002.
Appointments
As the former Chair of both Landmark Chambers’ Equality and Diversity and Wellbeing Committee and Retention of Women Working Group, and a current member of Chambers’ Management Committee, she takes a keen interest in diversity, inclusion and wellbeing at the Bar.
Camilla is also committed to pro bono work which she accepts through Advocate (formerly the Bar Pro Bono Unit). She has been one of Advocate’s Senior Reviewers for property and landlord and tenant cases for a number of years.
She has previously sat on the Independent Decision making Body (IDB) of the Bar Standards Board and served as Vice Chair of its Qualifications Committee
Camilla has been a qualified mediator since 2009 and accepts instructions to act as a mediator in relation to property disputes. She is on the Chancery Bar Association’s panel of pro bono mediators.
Memberships
- Chancery Bar Association
- Dilapidations Association
- Property Bar Association
- United Kingdom Environmental Law Association
Education
- Camilla read Jurisprudence at Lincoln College, Oxford (1991 to 1994) where she attained a first class honours on the BCL in 1996
- She was called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1995
- She qualified as an accredited mediator in 2009
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Property litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Camilla Lamont –Landmark Chambers ‘Camilla is very clear thinking and an excellent communicator with lay clients and the legal team alike. Her drafting is highly effective. She understands and fights the client’s corner, at all times with a firm grasp of how the judge is likely to receive and respond to the information. Always a pleasure to work with.’