Tanfield Chambers

Head of Chambers: Andrew Butler KC
Chief Executive: Walter Womersley
Tenants: 63 

THE CHAMBERS:  Tanfield is a specialist business and property set.  Members have significant experience across all levels of the courts and tribunals from the First-tier Tribunal to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.  Operating from its own member-owned premises just outside Gray’s Inn, Tanfield adopts a flexible and ‘unfussy’ approach, and is committed to excellent client care. All members, from its silks to its ’junior juniors’ pride themselves on being open, friendly and approachable and are supported by a responsive and helpful practice management and staff team. 

WORK UNDERTAKEN:   

• Property.  Tanfield is a leading property set and a ‘force to be reckoned with’ in real estate litigation.  It is a market leader in issues relating to The Building Safety Act 2022 (editing the two leading legal texts on the subject) as well as in residential and commercial property including enfranchisement and service charges, real property, agriculture/rural property and development disputes.   

• General commercial disputes including company and shareholder disputes and issues relating to finance, securities, mortgages and receivership. 

• Insolvency

• Professional negligence

• Private client

• Tax

Members of chambers write and lecture widely on real property issues and related topics.  They are involved in market leading texts including Dovar & Sawtell on The Building Safety Act, The Building Safety Act: a guide for property lawyers, Business Premises: Possession & Lease Renewal, Service Charges & Management, Boundaries & Easements, Commercial Property Litigation and Leasehold Enfranchisement: Law & Practice. 

The majority of members accept direct access instructions in appropriate cases.