Miss Catherine Rowlands

Qualifications: LLB (Hons.) Kings College London and Maitrise, Université de Paris (Pantheon-Sorbonne)
Called: 1992 (Gray’s Inn)
Joined Chambers: 2003

Practice Details :
Catherine Rowlands specialises in all aspects of housing litigation, particularly homelessness and judicial review, human rights, anti-social behaviour and other possession claims and claims for disrepair, with an emphasis on local authority work. She also undertakes general landlord and tenant and property-related litigation.

Email : catherine.rowlands@stiveschambers.co.uk
Clerk Enquiries : clerks@stiveschambers.co.uk

Specialisms :
Housing
Landlord and tenant
Human Rights

Notable Cases :
Short v Birmingham City Council [2004] EWHC 2112 (QB)
Aw-Aden v Birmingham City Council [2005] EWCA Civ 1834
Walker v Birmingham City Council [2006] EWCA Civ 815

Walker v Birmingham City Council [2007] UKHL 22
F –v- Birmingham City Council [2006] EWCA Civ 1427
Gordon Russell (UK) Ltd –v- Peter Warwick [2006] EWCA Civ 18 51

Rowley v Rugby BC [2007] EWCA Civ 483

Omar v Birmingham City Council [2007] EWCA Civ 610

Williams v Birmingham CC [2007] EWCA Civ 691
Shala v Bimingham CC [2007] EWCA Civ 624
Sandwell MBC v Hensley [2007] EWCA Civ 1425

Professional Memberships :
Founding member of Social Housing Law Association

What the directories say about Catherine Rowlands:

The UK Legal 500 comments:

"Catherine Rowlands has established a formidable reputation for her housing work."

Special Law Groups :
Property
Commercial
Trading Standards, Environmental & Planning Law Group