Polja Atkins > Longmores Solicitors LLP > Hertford, England > Lawyer Profile
Longmores Solicitors LLP Offices
24 CASTLE STREET
HERTFORD
SG14 1HP
England
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Polja Atkins
Work Department
Property Litigation
Position
Associate of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx)
Career
Polja has developed her niche specialism in lease extensions and collective enfranchisement and is now our go-to legal advisor for freehold companies, management companies, individual landlords and tenants looking for swift, accurate advice and assistance resolving disputes.
Polja qualified as an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives in 2009 with notable previous experience working for the biggest property management company in the country. She also has experience working in a City law firm, representing major breweries in forfeiture of leases of pubs and other commercial properties. Polja joined Longmores in 2018 and offers expertise including:
- Lease extensions – both pursuant to the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 and outside of the 1993 Act
- Collective enfranchisement – purchasing of the freehold of blocks of flats pursuant to the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993
- Right of first refusal
- Right to manage
- Management company and managing agent advice
- Nuisance claims
- Trespass claims
- Injunctions
- Boundary disputes
- Contentious landlord and tenant advice, commercial and residential, such as breaches of terms of lease and possession proceedings pursuant to assured shorthold tenancies
- Land Registry/Property Tribunal applications
- Dilapidation claims
- Recovery of service charge and ground rent arrears
- Forfeiture of commercial leases
Languages
Macedonian and Serbo-Croat (fluent), French (conversational)
Memberships
Polja is an Associate of the Institute of Residential Property Management (IRPM) and a member of the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP).
Education
Polja studied Law and Politics at University St Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia, graduating in 1996. She completed her MA in Criminology and Social Policy with The Open University in the UK in 2002.
Leisure
Polja enjoys European cinema and reading.
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- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Real estate > Commercial property: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Private client > Family: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx