Mr Brynmor Adams > Exchange Chambers > Manchester, England > Barrister Profile
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Mr Brynmor Adams
Work Department
Property and public law
Position
Brynmor specialises in property and public law. He has particular expertise in cases where these two areas interact such as in the fields of social housing and local government. He frequently deals with the impact of human rights and equality law on these sectors.
Brynmor recently joined Exchange from a specialist property and housing law chambers in London. He has experience of appearing at all levels of court and tribunal and can be instructed for cases nationwide.
Brynmor’s property practice ranges from trusts of land and real property through to landlord and tenant matters. He is experienced in private sector and public sector property disputes. He has appeared on numerous occasions before the Property Chamber of the First-Tier Tribunal in leasehold and land registration disputes, and on appeals to the Upper Tribunal.
Brynmor’s clients include a wide range of public bodies and local authorities. He is a member of the Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel, which enables him to represent central government departments. He frequently represents the government in judicial review proceedings in the High Court or UTIAC.
Career
Called 2008
Languages
French
Memberships
Social Housing Law Association (SHLA)
Property Bar Association (PBA)
Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA)
Lincoln’s Inn European Law Group
Education
Christ Church, Oxford – MA Jurisprudence (Course II), Law with Law Studies in Europe
Université de Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) – Certificat supérieur de droit français et européen
Before starting practice at the Bar, Brynmor was a stagiaire at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg where he drafted judgments and decisions on applications from the United Kingdom.
Lincoln’s Inn – Inns of Court School of Law Major Scholarship, Hardwicke Scholarship, Peter Duffy Human Rights Scholarship and Sunley Scholarship.
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Social housing
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Brynmor Adams – Exchange Chambers ‘Brynmor is a highly intelligent and astute barrister. He has superb attention to detail and gets to the nub of a matter very quickly. Clients love his no-nonsense approach.’
Exchange Chambers is home to the ‘client-focused‘ Brynmor Adams, who garners praise as ‘an able and unflappable advocate who demonstrates legal maturity way beyond his year of call‘. Adams is well known for representing landlords, local authorities, and housing associations, and his recent workload includes advising on anti-social behaviour cases. In an example matter, he successfully acted for the Cobalt Housing Association in anti-social behaviour possession claim proceedings involving allegations of harassment and disability discrimination.
Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Property and construction
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Brynmor Adams – Exchange Chambers ‘Brynmor is pragmatic, and provides thorough advice tailored to client objectives.’
At Exchange Chambers, the team’s workload includes public and private rights of way, highways and planning cases, disputes concerning registered land and conveyancing, and easements and boundaries issues. Andrew Williams specialises in real estate litigation; David Fearon and Simon Whitfield are key contacts in the group for construction and engineering disputes; and Lawrence McDonald is sought after for his expertise in handling disputes concerning rights to light, adverse possession, boundaries, and restrictive covenants. Brynmor Adams is also a key name and his practice mainly focuses on residential and commercial landlord and tenant matters.
Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Administrative and public law (including civil liberties and human rights)
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Brynmor Adams – Exchange Chambers ‘Brynmor is bright, calm, measured, and meticulous, and he has been super impressive both on paper and in conference.’
The members of Exchange Chambers have substantial expertise handling judicial review claims before the Administrative Court, representing both claimants and defendants. Brynmor Adams acts exclusively for public authorities, including central government departments, non-departmental agencies, and local authorities nationwide. Louis Browne KC leads the local government and social housing departments, and he represented Donald McPherson in R (Leeson) v HM Area Coroner for Manchester South and Various Interested Persons, a judicial review case considering the decision to not admit circumstantial evidence into an inquest in relation to the death of Paula Leeson, who died in a swimming pool in Sweden.