Selborne Chambers is 'very strong in property litigation'. Nicholas Trompeter KC appeared in London Trocadero (2015) LLP v Picturehouse Cinemas Limited, a longrunning dispute between the landlord, Trocadero, and its tenant, Picturehouse Cinemas, concerning the application of insurance rent; the court ruled that the landlord must repay overcharged insurance rent to the tenant. In a separate matter, Gary Blaker KC is representing the claimant in Bootle v GHL Property Management and Development Ltd & anr, a trespass and boundary dispute arising from the cutting down of a prominent number of trees, bushes and vegetation along a 120 metre boundary running between two properties in Lancashire. In March 2025 Romie Tager KC retired from practice, and Justin Kitson KC was elevated to silk.
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Profile
Position
Nick is a commercial practitioner who acts in a wide range of business disputes, in litigation and arbitration, including those involving civil fraud, asset recovery, contractual claims, trusts, company and insolvency matters, and banking and financial services. He has significant expertise of landlord and tenant and real estate litigation. This gives Nick a strong grounding in professional liability disputes, in particular, in the property sector.
Career
Called in 2006. Appointed Silk in 2021. Previously appointed to the Attorney-General’s C Panel and B Panel of Counsel. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Co-author of Break Clauses (3rd Edition), Hart Publishing 2022. Previously acted as a judicial assistant in the Supreme Court of Israel in Jerusalem.
Memberships
Property Bar Association; Commercial Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association
Education
New College, Oxford (MA Classics; New College Scholar); City University (CPE, distinction); ICSL (BVC, outstanding; Barstow Law Scholarship for coming third in the year; Du Cann Memorial Prize for highest overall marks in advocacy assessments); Wilfred Watson award from Gray’s Inn.
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