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Simon Allison
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Simon is a specialist property practitioner. He is described in the Legal 500 as an excellent advocate and one of the best barristers in the property field. Simon relishes all forms of advocacy, and has appeared in all levels of court and tribunal including recently appearing twice in the Supreme Court.
He is widely recognised as a specialist in leasehold management, forfeiture and service charge cases, and has appeared in a number of the leading cases in this area.
Simon was shortlisted for Barrister of the Year at the Enfranchisement and Right to Manage Awards 2022.
Simon is frequently instructed across the full range of real property disputes, including landlord and tenant, issues of adverse possession, restrictive covenants, land registration and easements. He regularly advises on a range of issues arising out of development agreements, including joint venture agreements, options and overage, as well as on issues at the intersection of property and insolvency law.
His clients include developers, land owners, financial institutions, leasehold management companies, ground rent investment companies, local authorities, Right to Manage companies, LPA receivers and surveyors.
Simon is favoured by solicitors for his practical common sense commercial advice; he is regularly instructed to represent clients at mediations and other forms of ADR.
Simon is a past Treasurer and Secretary of the Property Bar Association, having served in each role for three years.
In 2021, Simon was appointed as a fee paid Judge of the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber), assigned to the Land Registration division.
Before coming to the Bar, Simon worked for ten years providing (through his company) technical, design and production services to clients in the entertainment, film, corporate hospitality and motor industries, both in the UK and abroad. He has considerable commercial experience.
Simon spends his spare time entertaining his children, ideally combining this with his interests in cycling, cars, collecting photography books and working on his house (a thatched former cow shed).
Simon is regularly instructed in a wide range of property disputes, including secured lending claims, land registration issues, boundaries, nuisance, party walls, rights of way and other easements, and restrictive covenants. He has a particular interest in, and experience of, claims of adverse possession.
Simon is experienced in related enforcement procedures, including obtaining orders for sale, specific performance, rectification of the Register, injunctive relief (and committal) and the attendant determination of relative equitable interests in property.
Memberships
- Property Bar Association (Secretary)
- Chancery Bar Association
- Dilapidations Association
Education
- LLB Hons (University of London, Queen Mary College) – First Class
- Bar Vocational Course (BPP, London) – Outstanding
- Hardwicke Scholar (Lincoln’s Inn) (2004)
Personal
Awards
- Buchanan Prize (Lincoln’s Inn) (2005)
- Dechert Company Law Prize (2004)
- Drapers’ Company Prize for academic excellence (2003)
Leisure
Simon spends his spare time entertaining his children, ideally combining this with his interests in cycling, cars, collecting photography books and working on his house (a thatched former cow shed).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Property litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Simon Allison –Landmark Chambers ‘Simon is extremely knowledgeable but also pragmatic, applying good commercial sense and providing practical advice to clients and solicitors. His advocacy is controlled and he presents his arguments in logical and persuasive manner.’
Crossing over with the set’s expertise in planning and public law, Landmark Chambers have established themselves as a leading set across all aspects of property litigation including landlord and tenant and real estate disputes, as well as more niche areas such as telecommunications, protestor injunctions and village greens. Tom Weekes KC led Richard Moules KC in Fearn v Tate Trustees, a Supreme Court case in which the residents of a development of luxury flats were found to have been subjected to a nuisance by the viewing gallery on top of the Tate Modern’s Blavatnik Building. Simon Allison and Kimberley Ziya represented the successful appellant in FirstPort Property Services Limited v Settlers Court RTM in a landmark decision concerning the statutory right to manage blocks of flats. Timothy Morshead KC represented the energy company in Breen v Esso Petroleum, securing an injunction, and then the committal to prison for contempt of court of an individual who breached it by digging a tunnel in an attempt to stop the construction of the London Pipeline Project, based on economic torts rather than the law of nuisance or trespass. Justin Bates KC is notable for his residential property expertise – he is instructed for the residents in Global 100 v Jimenez, a case due to be heard by the Court of Appeal, after a “property guardianship” company was found by the tribunal to have run an unlicensed house of multiple occupation, therefore subjected to local authority fines and rent repayment orders.