The social housing department at Capsticks LLP which is praised for its ‘considered and clear’ legal advice is co-led by Michael Owen and Spencer Vella Sultana. Owen is ’incredibly knowledgeable’, serving as a key advisor on housing management matters including injunction orders, powers of arrest and exclusion orders, and possession orders. A housing development specialist, Vella Sultana assists major clients on land and unit acquisitions, site development, and estate regeneration. Further experts include Suzanne Smith, who brings deep planning law knowledge to the social housing space, and Rita Saadeh, who acts for registered providers on site development and regeneration matters.
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Accolades
Client satisfaction: Sector knowledge
Testimonials
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- ‘Capsticks LLP are unique due to their personability: the way they explain risk and options makes the decision making process simpler as they use real life cases to explain the legal technicalities. Also very responsive to queries.’
- ‘The team are very knowledgeable in social housing and provide considered and clear advice, showing a clear understanding of our business and the challenges faced. They have supported us through some particularly challenging and complex cases as well as day to day business and the service is always of a high quality.’
Key clients
- Oriel Housing Limited
- Ocean Housing
Work highlights
Assisted Vivid Homes to obtain an injunction to prevent the defendant from abusing and harassing our client’s employees and to clear dangerous materials from the property.
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Spencer Vella Sultana
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Rita Saadeh
Practice head
Michael Owen; Spencer Vella Sultana
Other key lawyers
Suzanne Smith; Rita Saadeh