Year of call 2003
Instructing Tim
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Tim Hammond has a predominantly real property and landlord and tenant practice.
He has experience of the Court of Appeal, the Chancery Division, the Queen’s Bench Division, the Companies Court, the Bankruptcy Court, the Upper Tribunal, the First-tier Tribunal, and the County Court. His cases have taken him from Croydon to Kazakhstan, and many places in between.
Tim recently appeared for the management company that obtained an injunction removing Vinnie the terrier from a £1.5 million penthouse flat in Limehouse. The County Court case was widely reported in the national press and covered on the BBC. Tim (led by Christopher Heather QC) later succeeded in defeating the tenants’ appeal: Victory Place Management Co Ltd v (1) Florian Kuehn (2) Gabrielle Kuehn [2018] EWHC 132 (Ch). The appeal, which was heard by the Chancellor of the High Court, raised interesting questions about the exercise of discretions contained in lease covenants, the application of long-adopted policies and the implication of terms.
Tim also recently appeared in the Court of Appeal acting for the successful Respondents in the matter of Kingley Developments Ltd v Brudenell and others [2016] EWCA Civ 980, a case involving the relative weight to be given to lay and expert evidence in circumstances of alleged forgery and wider frauds. The appeal followed an eight day trial at which Tim was also successful.
Tim drafts pleadings, opinions and skeleton arguments. He advises in conference on legal and tactical matters. He undertakes advocacy for trials, appeals and applications.
He finds practical solutions to problems, focusses upon strategy, and gives realistic and commercial advice. He is a persuasive advocate.
He has experience of being led by QCs and senior junior barristers.
He has considerable experience of mediation and arbitration.
His clients have included the Crown, the Duchy of Lancaster, the Church of England, the Attorney General, multi-national businesses, billionaire businessmen, mid-sized companies, commercial landlords, charities, housing trusts, local councils, management companies, small businesses as well as private individuals.
Tim acts in and advises upon claims involving easements and rights of way, boundary disputes, trespass, adverse possession, access to neighbouring land, mortgages (and issues of subrogation), freehold and leasehold covenants, licences, and claims to beneficial interests arising out of resulting trusts, constructive trusts and proprietary estoppel.
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Tim specialises in both commercial and residential landlord and tenant law, acting for both landlords and tenants. He acts in and advises upon claims involving possession, forfeiture (and relief from forfeiture), the effect of insolvency upon possession proceedings, overriding leases, succession, matters relating to anti-social behaviour (to include committal proceedings following breach of anti-social behaviour injunctions), disrepair, dilapidations, service charges (residential and commercial), management, the variation of lease terms, enfranchisement (including missing landlords) and has a long-established practice concerning the renewal of business tenancies.
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Tim acts in and advises upon cases involving business contracts, loan and finance agreements, guarantees, and disputes arising out of building projects.
His cases have included the following issues: the parties to the contract, the identification of a contract, the meaning of and applicability of contractual terms, jurisdiction and the applicability of foreign law to contracts, the identification and effect of unfair terms, the effect of consumer protection law upon contractual terms, agency, third party rights under the contract, variation of terms, novation, consideration, promissory estoppel, fraudulent insurance claims, mispresentation, mistake, undue influence, duress, and non est factum.
Tim has experience obtaining freezing injunctions and enforcing judgments by way of third party debt orders, charging orders and orders for sale.
Tim has acted as Junior Counsel in high value Commercial Court and arbitration claims. He has experience of arbitration under the rules of the London Court of International Arbitration and challenges/appeals to the High Court in arbitration proceedings.
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Tim advises upon and acts in claims involving professional negligence (particularly in relation to land).
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