Amanda Gourlay

  • Practice Groups
  • Business & Commercial
  • Property
  • Career

  • 2004 Called to the Bar

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Profile

Amanda practices in all areas of property and business & commercial law.

She became a tenant at Tanfield Chambers in October 2005.

She speaks fluent French and spent September 2005 as a Paris Bar Exchange scholar in the commercial property department of the law firm Lefèvre Pelletier.

Experience

Property

Amanda’s court work includes:

  • Possession claims
  • Unlawful eviction
  • Disrepair

Amanda’s advisory work has included:

  • Whether the landlord of a shopping centre had unreasonably withheld its consent to a tenant’s assignment of its lease.
  • The merits of an estoppel defence against a local authority in a terminal dilapidations claim.
  • Pepper v Hart research on the effect of s.23 Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995 on a claim for service charge arrears.

Business & Commercial

  • Breach of contract
  • Insolvency
  • Debt enforcement
  • Costs hearings

 

It was a pleasure to work with counsel in court. Amanda was pleasant and easy to speak to and work with and we found her to be most honest and helpful in her approach, in a very human way!

Caroline, a client Carpet City Ltd, May 2009

Publications

Contributor to ISURV, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors’ online professional support resource for building surveyors.

Memberships

Member, Property Bar Association

Member, Social Housing Association

Member, Personal Injuries Bar Association

Member, Franco-British Lawyers Society

Qualifications

MA (Cantab), Modern and Mediaeval Languages (French and Russian)

Post Graduate Diploma in Law; Distinction (Kingston University)