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Lewis Silkin Offices
Arbor
255 Blackfriars Rd
LONDON
SE1 9AX
England
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Paul Hayes
Work Department
Real Estate & Housing Litigation
Position
Head of Housing and Residential Litigation, specialising in residential property litigation, including acting on behalf of many of the UKs Registered Providers of Social Housing dealing with all housing management issues, both contentious and non-contentious, including anti-social behaviour, nuisance, disrepair, non occupation and sub-let (tenancy fraud), rent arrears and debt recovery, breach of tenancy and trespass. Protestor and trespass actions dealing with a number of high profile matters that received substantial press coverage including the eviction of around 100 trespassers from two residential properties in Park Lane London, acting for Harrods and Harvey Nichols in their claims against protestors, and the eviction of a large number of travellers from development sites. These practice areas include on a regular basis advising and assisting on Human Rights, Equality Act and Data Protection issues. Residential property litigation includes acting for a number private landlords on all housing management related issues, including in the Property Tribunal on service charge disputes, lease extension, enfranchisement claims and right to manage claims.
Career
Joined Hancock & Willis 1989; Merged Lewis Silkin 1992; became Head of Housing Litigation August 2006
Memberships
Chartered Institute of Housing; Property Litigation Association; Social Housing Law Association
Lawyer Rankings
London > Real estate > Property litigation
Lewis Silkin covers all areas of commercial and residential property litigation before all levels of court. The team acts for major corporates and high-net-worth individuals with a particular focus on dilapidations, rights of light, insolvency and development matters. Practice head Brian Kilcoyne, who is noted as ‘one of the leading property litigation solicitors in the country’, has over 30 years of experience with contractual and development disputes. ‘Top litigator’ Mario Betts handles a range of commercial landlord and tenant matters, whilst Paul Hayes has a strong track record in professional negligence.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Employment > Employers
- Employment > Immigration
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Theatre, publishing and other media
- Employment > Senior executives
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Music
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Video games
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Real estate > Planning
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising