Cecily Crampin
Cecily practises all aspects of property law, including both residential and commercial landlord and tenant law and real property. She likes difficult legal problems.Cecily has expertise in the Building Safety Act 2022. She has advised on numerous issues arising: the available remedies and which to pursue, the applicability of the higher-risk regime in Part 4, the duty to undertake the type of remediation works caught by Part 5 of the Act, the application of the service charge limits in Schedule 8, the application of the associated provisions for recovery between landlords, and the leaseholder and landlord certificate process including in cases with chains of leases, and in relation to Islamic finance mortgages. She was and is junior counsel for the Respondents, led by Jonathan Selby KC of Keating Chambers, in Triathlon & Anr v SVDP & Othrs [2025] EWCA Civ 846, fully fought applications for remediation contribution orders under the Building Safety Act 2022, heard first in the FTT by the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) President and Deputy President and then on appeal to the Court of Appeal. The Supreme Court appeal on the issue of whether remediation contribution orders can be made in respect of costs incurred prior to the Building Safety Act coming into force is listed for November 2026. Cecily remains instructed, led by Philip Rainey KC and Jonathan Selby KC. Cecily has extensive experience in Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 lease renewals including difficult opposed lease renewals; in complicated forfeiture claims; in property cases with issues as to trust or company ownership; in Party Wall etc Act 1996 work, on which she often gives seminars for the Faculty of Party Wall Surveyors and for the Pyramus and Thisbe Club; and, including with Stephen Jourdan KC, in property issues arising out of the sanctioning of individuals (for example under the Russian sanctions regime). Cecily has a particular interest in mortgage law, in particular the more difficult mortgage possessions. With her colleague, Stephanie Tozer KC, she authored a new book, Mortgage Receivership: Law and Practice (Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing, October 2018). The second edition, with Stephanie Tozer KC and Tricia Hemans, was published by Wildys in May 2024, and considers the application of new legislation such as the Building Safety Act 2022 to receivers, and the effect of sanctioning of the borrower. In 2023 she successfully led Taylor Briggs, pro bono, for the Fourth Defendant, in Barnard v Brandon & Othrs [2023] EWHC 3043 (Ch) which involved mortgagee sale to self and sale at less than the best price reasonably obtainable. She is currently instructed in relation to the mortgage issues in a large commercial dispute, and in a case, most recently considered on appeal in Dattani & Anr v Ferns [2024] EWHC 2980 (Ch), on whether a conveyancing solicitor has liability to a judgment creditor when he transfers the proceeds of sale of a property on the instructions of his principals, where there is a charging order over a beneficial share in the property protected by a standard form K restriction.Cecily is also the co-editor, with Michael Ranson, of Falcon Chambers’ book Charging Orders on Land: Law, Practice and Precedents, 2nd edition (Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing, January 2024). She is a contributor to the forthcoming new Chambers book Bona Vacantia and Escheat: Law and Practice (Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing, forthcoming in the autumn of 2026), an area on which she often advises in particular in relation to the issues arising when overseas companies own English land and are struck off their overseas register.In April 2024, Cecily was shortlisted for the Junior Pro Bono Barrister of the Year at the 2024 Bar Pro Bono Awards. She was shortlisted for the John Collins Pro Bono Excellence Award at the 2022 Bar Pro Bono Awards. She was shortlisted for the News on the Block Apartment adviser Awards 2025 in the category Barrister of the Year – Junior Counsel (over 10 years’ call).Current and recent work includes:Building Safety Act 2022 Remediation orders and remediation contribution orders from case management hearing to trial. She acted as junior counsel for the Respondents in Triathlon & Anr v SVDP & Othrs [2025] EWCA Civ 846, led by Jonathan Selby KC of Keating Chambers. She continues to act for the Respondents, led by Philip Rainey KC and Jonathan Selby KC, in the upcoming Supreme Court appeal on the issue of whether remediation contribution orders are retrospective in effect. She is also junior counsel, led by Jonathan Selby KC, in a second high value remediation contribution order applicationThe rights of recovery of service charges between landlords. Cecily was sole counsel in the first case considering regulation 3 of the Building Safety (Leaseholder Protections) (Information) etc Regulations 2022, Stratford Village Property Holdings 1 Ltd & Anr v East Village Management Ltd [2026] 1 WLUK 792 and is instructed with Douglas Maxwell in an appeal to the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) due to be heard in October 2026Which remedy to pursue between remediation contribution orders, building liability orders and under the Defective Premises Act 1972Landlord and leaseholder certificates including in unusual lease structuresThe source of duties to do remediation workLimits of service charges under Schedule 8 of the BSAApplicability of Part 4 of the BSAMortgage workComplicated mortgage claims including those raising regulatory issues under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and unfair relationships under the Consumer Credit Act 1974Mortgage subrogationConsolidation and tackingMortgage receivers’ possession claims, and cases on breaches of receiver’s dutiesCases on how to structure mortgage documentation including in Islamic financeEffect of sanctions regimes on lender and receiver's sales Real propertyOverage and other development issuesEasements and boundariesParty Wall etc Act 1996 including issues on s10 jurisdiction, and limitationLand registration, including rights post completion and pre registrationRent charges and variation of estate management schemesVendor purchaser summons and effect of Russian sanctions regime on buying propertyTrusts of landTOLATA claims in difficult family circumstancesTrusts in the context of bankruptcyCommercial leaseholdUnlawful forfeiture and relief from forfeiture in valuable commercial propertyOpposed and unopposed lease renewals under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954Rent reviewEffect of Russian sanctions regime on leasehold obligations and rightsResidential leasehold Right to manage including the extent of the right once acquired as against landlord’s retained rightsLicence for alterations in high value residential propertyEnfranchisement with issues about split freehold ownershipService charges in high value residential propertyEffect of sanctions regimes on collecting service charges and rent
