Practice Summary

Camilla is an experienced property litigator with a court based practice. She undertakes work in all areas of property litigation, including real property & related chancery work and landlord and tenant, both commercial and residential. She also has experience of property related environmental and professional negligence work. Whilst she is very much a litigator, Camilla is also frequently instructed by transactional lawyers, often within tight time frames, to advise on points that fall within her areas of expertise.  Please click through each link for more details of Camilla’s practice in each area.


AREAS OF PRACTICE

Real Property and Chancery

Commercial Landlord and Tenant

Residential Landlord and Tenant

Environmental

 

What the directories say...

Camilla is recognised as a leading junior in property/real estate litigation by both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners. 
Comments about her in the directories include:

• “ a delightful junior with a great brain” (Chambers & Partners 2012)

• “a trusted adviser who has impressive technical ability” (Legal 500, 2011)

• “a specialist property practitioner” who is “user friendly, very thorough and works as part of the team” (Chambers & Partners, 2011)

• “instantly likeable” (Legal 500, 2010)

• “clients are pleased to recommend someone so quick to grasp the key points and turn around work quickly and without fuss” (Chambers and Partners, 2010)

•  “hands on” (Legal 500, 2009)

• “a persuasive advocate” (Legal 500, 2008)”


Publications and lectures

Camilla has published widely in her field and most significantly has been an editor of Hill & Redman on Landlord and Tenant since 2002. She also regularly lectures on property law and practice. She was a speaker at the 2011 Property Bar Association’s Annual Conference (on break notices) and the 2010 Property Litigation Association’s Annual Training Conference (on disclaimer and CVAs) and has previously delivered lectures in Hong Kong in association with the Law Society and the British Council. She has delivered lectures to surveyors for the CPD Foundation as well as lecturing on the commercial leases course at Oxford University.
 

Mediation

Camilla became an accredited mediator in 2009 and has successfully acted as a mediator both in relation to property disputes and non property related disputes. She is willing to mediate a wide range of disputes. Please click here for more details.


Professional memberships

Camilla is committed to pro bono work which she accepts through the Bar Pro Bono Unit and the Environmental Law Foundation (Elf).

She was recently elected to the Committee of the Chancery Bar Association and is also a member of the Property Bar Associations and UKELA. 

In 2011 Camilla was appointed to the Bar Standards Board (Qualifications Committee).  She also sits on the Academic Panel of the Bar Standards Board and the Academic Liaison Sub Committee of the Chancery Bar Association.
 

QUALIFICATIONS

Camilla read Jurisprudence at Lincoln College, Oxford where she attained a first class honours on the BCL.

Between 1997 and 2001 she held a part time appointment as Lecturer in land law and trusts at New College, Oxford and she has been lecturing on commercial leases at Oxford University since 2007. 

Camilla was recently appointed to the Bar Standards Board (Qualifications Committee).

She is an editor of Hill & Redman’s Law of Landlord and Tenant. 

PUBLICATIONS