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Tracey Bird

Position

Tracy is an experienced junior, with a broad practice in property, landlord and tenant, civil, commercial and family disputes. In addition to her practice as a barrister, Tracy is a qualified civil and commercial mediator.

Property and Landlord & Tenant:

Tracy regularly advises landlords, tenants and owner occupiers in possession proceedings. Tracy has extensive experience of advising large landlords and housing organisations, including providing advice and training. Tracy has considerable expertise of the following types of disputes:

• Landlord and tenant (including possession, disrepair and dilapidation claims)
• Trespass claims
• Property guardianship claims
• Leasehold forfeiture (both residential and commercial)
• TOLATA claims (whether arising from domestic co-ownership or commercial partnership/ventures)
• Trusts and equitable disputes arising out of property
• Mortgages and secured loans
• Injunctions and other interlocutory relief arising out of property disputes
• Lease interpretation, rent review and service charges
• Claims before the First Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber)

Civil/Commercial:

Tracy undertakes both Claimant and Defendant work in a wide range of civil and commercial disputes, including:

• Road traffic claims (including personal injury and credit hire claims arising from such claims)
• Inheritance claims, including Inheritance Act claims, interpretation, and validity of wills
• Building and construction disputes
• Contractual claims (including business to business, and consumer contracts)
• Regulatory disputes (in particular disputes relating to sports, and disciplinary proceedings bought by governing bodies).

Tracy is also happy to provide civil and commercial mediation to parties in disputes.

Family:

Tracy is experienced in a range of family matters, including public and private law children, divorce and family finance matters.

Public Law Children

Tracy has extensive experience of public law children cases, however is experienced in dealing with less common cases such as non-accidental injury, sexual abuse, and cases involving cross border, or international elements. Tracy is also experienced in cases involving applications made by NHS trusts for the purposes of medical treatment, and applications for deprivation of liberty.

Private Law Children

Within her private law children practice Tracy has experience of the usual types of child arrangements disputes, however has experience of less common applications such as:

• Applications under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (HFEA)
• Declarations of Parentage following international surrogacy arrangements (including contested cases)
• International relocation cases
• Child Abduction (Hague and Non-Hague Convention cases)

Finance

Tracy has represented numerous clients in applications for financial remedies. Tracy’s experience includes cases involving overseas property, trusts, company assets and shareholdings.