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Mr Henry Webb
Position
Henry practises in commercial chancery and property law. His commercial chancery experience covers trusts, fraud, undue influence, fiduciary duties and professional negligence. His property practice includes real property (sale of land, easements, boundary disputes, adverse possession), land registration, mortgages, co-ownership claims and commercial and residential landlord and tenant disputes.
Career
Henry’s recent cases include one of the Property Week “Top legal cases of 2021”, Stonecrest Marble Ltd v Shepherds Bush Housing Association Ltd [2021] EWHC 2621 (Ch), which concerned the exclusion of landlord’s liability for retained parts in a commercial lease. He also acted for the successful landlord in Coldunnell Ltd v Hotel Management International Ltd [2022] EWHC 1290 (TCC), a substantial claim for dilapidations on the termination of a hotel lease.
Henry has appeared in the Court of Appeal in Jones v Roundlistic Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 2284 (concerning the application of the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 to a residential lease), Gore v Naheed [2017] EWCA Civ 369 (relating to the extent of an easement) and Rabiu v Marlbray Ltd [2016] 1 WLR 5147 (application of section 2 of the Law of Property (MP) Act 1989 to joint purchasers). He also appeared for the successful appellant to the Supreme Court in Szepietowski v Serious Organised Crime Agency [2013] UKSC 65 (led by Romie Tager QC).
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association; Property Bar Association (Treasurer 2019).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Property litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Henry Webb –Selborne Chambers ‘A very good all-round property law barrister, with a hands-on approach and patient with clients, taking the time to explain things clearly. Henry offers a high level of service and provides commercial and well-reasoned opinions.‘
With a mixture of prominent property silks and juniors, Selborne Chambers features considerable experience in real property and landlord and tenant disputes, as well as more specialist areas such as breach of covenant, rights of light and adverse possession matters. Nicholas Trompeter KC represented the landlord in London Trocadero (2015) LLP v Picturehouse Cinemas Ltd, an ongoing matter which reached the Court of Appeal on one point, concerning if a cinema operator was liable for rent payments during periods when the premises were closed due to COVID-19 restrictions. Turning to the set’s juniors, Henry Webb represented the claimant in Hotel Management International Ltd v Coldunnell Ltd, a dilapidations trial in which the claimant received over half a million pounds, beating a Part 36 offer.