Philip Rainey QC

Profile

Winner - Real Estate Junior of the Year, Chambers Bar Awards 2009
Winner - Barrister of the Year, Enfranchisement Awards 2009 

“Real stature and standing, and an impressive intellect to boot” (Chambers UK 2009)

Philip is head of the property group at Tanfield Chambers.

Within a broader property practice, Philip specialises in Leasehold Enfranchisement, together with the associated areas of Rights of First Refusal, Right to Manage, Right to Buy, enfranchisement-related Professional Negligence claims, and Commonhold.

Philip has appeared in a number of the leading cases in enfranchisement, including the House of Lords decisions in Cadogan v Sportelli [2008] UKHL 71 and Howard de Walden v Aggio [2008] UKHL 44. 

Philip was called to the Bar during the pit of the last recession and has extensive experience in property - insolvency and mortgage claims as well as commercial landlord & tenant, and rent review.

Experience

Aside from enfranchisement, Philip has acquired substantial experience in:

- complex mortgage work
- insolvency
- service charges*
- property-related banking and commercial claims
- property related professional negligence
- party wall awards
- rent review*
- 1954 Act lease renewal
- arbitration more generally.

* Philip is a co-author of books on the subjects of service charges and rent review, see under “publications”.

He is also experienced in a broader range of general commercial work. This includes aspects of banking law, arbitration and mediation in cases of all disciplines, in addition to mainstream contract, tort and fiduciary duty claims.

Significant Cases

Craftrule Ltd v 41-60 Albert Palace Mansions Ltd [2010] 22 EG 107(CS)
Collective enfranchisement – “self contained part of a building”

New Northumbria Hotel Ltd v Maymask (148) LLP [2010] EWHC 1273 (Ch)
Forfeit lease – chattels – delivery up – damages or injunction

Hughes v Borodex [2010] EWCA Civ 425
Schedule 10 Local Govt & Housing Act 1989 – disregard for tenant improvements

Redbridge LBC v Mustafa (Chancellor, 19/3/10 unreported)
Bankruptcy – Council Tax - annulment – liability for Trustee’s costs

Grosvenor Estate Belgravia v Klaasmeyer [2010] UKUT 69 (LC)
Enfranchisement - valuation – Belgravia lease escalator clause

Coutts & Co v Chowdery [2009] All ER (D) 144 (Peter Prescott QC)
Appeal - Statutory demand – cheque drawn on uncleared funds

Nailrile v Cadogan [2009] 2 EGLR 151 (LT)
Enfranchisement – valuation of head-leases – negative values

Cadogan v Sportelli [2009] 2 WLR 12 (House of Lords) [2008] 1 WLR 2142 (CA)
Enfranchisement - valuation - hope value

Howard de Walden v Aggio [2009] 1 AC 39 (House of Lords) [2008] Ch 26 (CA)
Enfranchisement (lease extensions), rights of head lessees

131 Dartmouth Road Ltd v Goldfax Ltd (HHJ Powles QC, 9/10/08, unreported)
Enfranchisement - measurement of non-residential area

Pitts v Cadogan [2007] 3 EGLR 86 (LT)
Enfranchisement: hope value

Pitts v Cadogan (Preliminary issue (1)) [2007] RVR 269 (LT)
Lands Tribunal appeal jurisdiction

29 Eaton Place; McGuckian & others appeal (3/1/08 Lands Tribunal)
Collective Enfranchisement - head lease caretaker's flat - no right to acquire

Arrowdell v Coniston Court (North) Hove Ltd [2007] RVR 39 (LT)
Powers of Lands Tribunal on appeal, LVT use of own experience, development value

Coutts & Co v Passey [2007] BPIR 323
Insolvency - IVA - creditor's meeting - admitting contractual costs claim for voting

West v Newham LBC [2007] 5 Leg Act 28 [2007] EWCA Civ 304
Right to buy, jurisdiction of district valuer and extent of property

Kensington International v Republic of Congo [2006] 2 CLC 588 (Comm Ct)
Search order - non-party - cross examination

C v C, Citibank's application [2006] 1 FLR 936 (Munby J)
Mortgagee's right to disclosure of evidence where affected by a freezing order

Credit & Mercantile plc v Marks [2005] Ch 81 (CA)
Mortgagee's right to possession after grant of a sub-charge

Coutts & Co v Sebestyen [2005] CCLR 4 [2005] EWCA Civ 473
Meaning of OFT Determination re: bank overdrafts

Alpha Lettings Ltd v Neptune Research & Development Inc (2003) 147 SJLB 627 [2003] EWCA Civ 704
Notice to determine exclusive distributorship

Wandsworth LBC v Manuel [2002] 2 EGLR 128
Jurisdiction of LVT in service charge disputes

Reid v Hamblin [2001] BPIR 929
Supervisors costs on void IVA

Oliver Ashworth (Holdings) Ltd v Ballard (Kent) Ltd [2000] Ch.12
Waiver of double rent under the Distress for Kent Act 1737

Atlas Ceiling & Partition Co Ltd v Crowngate Estates (Cheltenham) Ltd [2000] CILL 1639 (TCC)
Adjudication, date of contract

Hope v Premierspace (Europe) Ltd [1999] BPIR 695 (Ch.D)
Scope of petition debt

R v Newham LBC ex.p Trendgrove Properties Ltd (1999) 32 HLR (QBD)
Housing grant judicial review

Fitzgerald & Law (a firm) v Ralph [1998] BPIR 42 (Ch.D)
Necessity for permission to appeal, costs, principles applying

Antoniades v Wong [1997] 2 BCLC 419 [1998] BCC 58 (CA)
S.459 petition-ordering liquidation when unfair prejudice prov.

Ashworth Frazer Ltd v Gloucester City Council [1997] 1 EGLR 104
Construction of rent review clause

Marath v MacGillivray (1996) 28 HLR 484, The Times 5 Feb 1996, (CA)
Sufficiency of notice under HA 1988 s.88 and LLTA 1987

Re: Nowmost Co Ltd [1996] BCLC 492 (Ch.D)
Costs, principles applying

Filering Ltd v Taylor Commercial Ltd [1996] EGCS 95 (CA)
Surrender by operation of law

Provident Mutual v Greater London Employers Association [1996] 1 EGLR 106 (Ch.D)
Business tenancy s.27 notice

Amersfort Ltd v Kelly Nichols & Blayney [1996] EGCS 156 (Ch.D)
Solicitors negligence

Publications

Contributor, Service Charges and Management: Law & Practice 2nd edition (Sweet & Maxwell)

Contributor, Service Charges and Management: Law & Practice 1st edition 2006 (Sweet & Maxwell)

Editor, Rent Review: A Surveyor's Handbook 2008 (RICS)

Memberships

Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Property Bar Association

Chancery Bar Association

Member, Civil Procedure Rules Committee, 2001 - 2008

Directory Quotes

"Sources enthused over the natural air of authority he emanates in property disputes, particularly those relating to leasehold enfranchisement"
Chambers UK 2010

"Marvellous"
Legal 500 2009

"Real stature and standing, and an impressive intellect to boot"
"Acute and academic"
Chambers UK 2009

"An absolute genius"
"Wouldn't use anyone else for leasehold enfranchisement cases"
Chambers UK 2008

"Very bright"
Legal 500 2008

"Excellent on his feet and very persuasive"
Chambers UK 2006

Philip is listed as an expert in Property Litigation in Legal Experts 2008, 2009 and 2010.