Katie Gray > Tanfield Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile

Tanfield Chambers Offices

Tanfield Chambers
2-5 WARWICK COURT
LONDON
WC1R 5DJ
England
Visit website 020 7421 5300 020 7421 5333

Katie Gray

Katie Gray photo
020 7421 5300 [email protected] View profile

Work Department

Property litigation

Position

Katie Gray is a barrister with specialist expertise in real property and landlord and tenant litigation. Her practice encompasses all areas of real property and landlord and tenant disputes, with a particular focus on restrictive covenants, boundaries and easements, agricultural land, party walls, and leasehold covenants.
Katie is frequently instructed in landlord and tenant and mortgage possession matters. She is experienced in commercial and residential forfeiture, contested 1954 Act lease renewals and leasehold covenant disputes relating to alterations, consent and the like. She is often asked to advise in matters related to the right of first refusal.
Katie also has a successful real property practice in which she frequently advises on restrictive covenants (and the modification and discharge thereof), rights of way, rights to light,  boundary disputes, proprietary estoppel and agricultural land. She is often instructed to act in cases relating to trusts of land, including constructive and resulting trusts and orders for sale under TOLATA 1996.
Katie is one of a handful of property litigators with specialist expertise in party wall disputes. She has acted in many party wall appeals, both led and in her own right“

Career

Year of call: 2013

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association; Property Bar Association.

Lawyer Rankings

London Bar > Property litigation

(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4

Katie Gray – Tanfield Chambers ‘Katie is very methodical and precise.’

Tanfield Chambers has a solid track record in advising on the full range of core property disputes. Service charge disputes, enfranchisement matters, right to manage issues and cases brought under the Building Safety Act 2022 have been prominent in the team’s recent workload. Philip Rainey KC appeared in Aviva Investors Ground Rent GP v Williams, a Supreme Court case involving issues of re-apportionment of service charges, while Nicholas Isaac KC and Katie Gray appeared before the Court of Appeal in Power v Shah, a case involving a contested Party Wall etc. Act 1996 (PWA 1996) award. In another matter, Mark Loveday appeared in Avon Ground Rents v Canary Gateway RTM, a Court of Appeal case concerning shared ownership leaseholders’ right to manage. Edward Denehan, Philip Brown and Timothy Cowen are three of twelve members who joined from 9 Stone Buildings when that set disbanded.

Top Tier Firm Rankings

Firm Rankings