Landmark Chambers

Sami is a specialist property barrister with a broad practice across real property, landlord and tenant, mortgages and property-related company and insolvency disputes.

Sami advises and acts across the full range of property disputes, with particular experience in real property and landlord and tenant matters. He acts in courts and tribunals for a wide range of clients, including landlords, tenants, management companies, developers and lenders. Sami is especially well placed to assist where property issues intersect with company, insolvency or regulatory considerations, including disputes involving resident management companies, developers and insolvency officeholders.

Sami is regularly instructed to appear in the County Court in claims concerning possession, disrepair, nuisance, breach of covenant and other land-related disputes. He has acted as sole counsel in a multi-day trial concerning easements and public nuisance.

He also appears frequently in the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) in matters concerning service charges, including Building Safety Act 2022 issues; right to manage; enfranchisement valuation; the appointment of managers under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987; and allegations of breaches under long leases.

To that end, he has recently:

• Advised and appeared for a manager appointed under Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 in a case raising a yet to be decided point regarding the interaction between the manager’s duties and those of the Principal Accountable Person under Part IV of the Building Safety Act 2022 in circumstances where a variation of the management order is sought (ongoing).

• Appeared in a trial raising issues of contractual variation under a commercial lease in the context of a "No Oral Modification” clause and whether the variations took effect as a collateral agreement.

• Drafted a claim for damages arising out of the unlawful eviction of a commercial tenant under an oral tenancy protected by the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, as well as damages for conversion of the tenant’s property (ongoing).

• Appeared for a housing association in possession proceedings raising numerous public law challenges, including whether the housing association had acted rationally in the implementation of its succession policy.

• Drafted particulars of claim for a professional negligence claim in the High Court (TCC) relating to the negligent fitting of water distribution pipework in a newly constructed development (worth c.£500,000).

• Appeared in the FtT on an application under s.27A of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, with the issue being the extent to which a landlord must provide reasons in support of an apportionment decision (appeal to the Upper Tribunal to be heard in November 2026).

• Advised a land owner as to their prospects of obtaining injunctive relief to restrain a development of 24 houses on the basis of substantial interference with their rights to light. This instruction also raised questions about the ability to bring proceedings against an administrator under para 43(6) of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986.

• Appeared for the respondent in the ICC on an application to set aside a statutory demand for c.£2.5 million relating to a loan financing a property development.

• Advised on whether a mortgagee was in breach of its duties under the Mortgage Conduct of Business Rules and whether this sounded in a claim under s.138D of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

• Drafted particulars of claim in a c.£8 million professional negligence claim against insurance brokers in the hospitality sector for losses arising out of Covid-19 (ongoing).

• Advised a firm of solicitors on their internal procedures to service claims outside the jurisdiction without permission, and more specifically the applicability of CPR r.6.33(2B)(b) in the context of a choice of law clause.

• Drafted particulars of claim in a claim concerning, amongst other things, a substantial indemnity under s.178(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (ongoing).

Sami is also developing a rating and valuation practice, building on his experience of complex valuation issues arising under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 and the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.