Year of call 2008
Instructing Sam
For further information or to instruct Sam please contact one of our following clerks:
“Sam is extremely clever, hard-working and diligent.”
Chambers UK 2024
“Sam is very personable, astute, commercial and pragmatic.”
Chambers UK 2024
“Sam is incredibly knowledgeable and has an encyclopedic knowledge of residential landlord and tenant law.”
Legal 500 2024
“Sam is not only a brilliantly technical lawyer but he is very confident under pressure and has excellent judgement.”
Legal 500 2023 (Property Litigation)
“Sam’s advice is clear, detailed and well considered, and he provides practical and creative solutions to issues.”
Legal 500 2023 (Social Housing)
“He is very good at finding public law points in otherwise normal cases and grasps the depth of issues involved in these sorts of cases.”
Chambers UK 2022 (Social Housing)
“Sam has broad expertise in all matters relating to social housing. Sam is capable of spotting the important points in cases that might otherwise seem unwinnable.”
Legal 500 2022 (Social Housing)
“He knows housing law backwards.”
Chambers UK 2021 (Social Housing)
“Sam is intelligent and incisive. He can absorb complex and voluminous case papers quickly and get to the heart of the matter. Clients are confident when he is at the helm and he always delivers. He has a great rapport with clients who warm to him as soon as they meet him.”
Legal 500 2021 (Social Housing)
“Very good and very reliable.”
Legal 500 2020 (Social Housing)
“He’s very approachable. He has a laid-back manner but also a quiet confidence which reassures the clients.”
Chambers UK 2019 (Band 2, Social Housing)
“Real expertise in leasehold work before the residential property tribunal.”
Legal 500 2018
“Extremely confident and very impressive. He got hold of a complicated case at the last minute and got a good result.” “He is really reliable and gives consistently good service.”
Chambers UK 2018 (Band 2, Social Housing)
Sam Madge-Wyld is an experienced and renowned expert in property law, with a particular expertise in landlord and tenant and mortgages. He is recommended by both the Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 guides who comment that he “has excellent judgment”, “is confident under pressure” and “knows housing law backwards”.
He is regularly called upon to act and advise on a diverse range of property disputes in both the commercial and residential sectors. Recent examples include disputes that have arisen from the redevelopment of land, the ownership of land, the condition of commercial and residential leasehold premises, mortgages over land, enfranchisement and the tenant’s right of first refusal, the management of leasehold premises, neighbour disputes, residential and commercial service charges, rent reviews, contracts for the sale of land, applications to the Land Registry, injunctions to restrain interferences over land and the enforcement of housing offences. His practice also includes claims for professional negligence against solicitors, surveyors, managing agents and other professionals that arise from property related issues. The variety of his instructions means that he has appeared in the county court, High Court and Court of Appeal, while also the First-tier and Upper Tribunals and, occasionally, magistrates’ courts too.
Sam’s knowledge and expertise derives from the fact that he writes extensively and regularly in his areas of expertise. He is the co-author of Defending Possession Proceedings (2022), Service Charges and Management (2022), Housing Law Casebook (2017) and Quiet Enjoyment: Protection from Rogue Landlords (2017). He also writes, with HHJ Luba KC, a regular monthly column on the recent developments in housing law, along other articles for a number of legal journals and publications. He also lectures and teaches solicitors, property managers, private landlords and letting agents at conferences and seminars across the country.
He accepts instructions on a direct access basis from the public.
Sam acts for residential and commercial lessors, lessees, property managers and surveyors on a wide variety of leasehold disputes including:
He presents seminars and speaks at conferences on the recovery of ground rent, service and administration charges, lease variations, service of property notices and the application of the Equality Act 2010 to leasehold premises.
Sam advises and acts for clients in all areas of property law including:
Sam, as a part of his real property practice, acts for and against banks, other lenders and LPA receivers in all types of mortgage litigation.
Sam advises and acts on property related professional negligence for and against managing agents, surveyors and solicitors.