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The Housing group is nationally acclaimed. Individual members enjoy a strong reputation in the field and are dedicated to providing a first-class service. The group benefits from an excellent clerking team who recognise the importance of ensuring high service standards at all times and are committed to working with clients to ensure their requirements are met.

Members have extensive experience dealing with a wide range of issues arising in both a social housing context and a private residential context. Clients are located throughout England and Wales and include local authorities, private registered providers, private landlords and tenants.

Work undertaken includes:

  • Possession Actions
    • Anti-social behaviour
    • Human Rights
    • Public Law Challenges
    • Equality Act 2010
    • Succession
  • Anti-social Behaviour
    • Civil Injunctions
    • Possession Actions
    • Protection from Harassment Act 1997[TH2]
    • Orders under the Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act 2014
  • Homelessness and Allocations
    • County Court Appeals
    • Judicial Review
  • Disrepair
    • Civil
    • Environmental Protection Act 1990
  • Regulatory and Criminal Work
    • Environmental Protection Act 1990
    • Unlawful Eviction
    • Harassment claims
  • Mobile Homes and Travellers
  • Right to Buy
  • Stock Transfers

Members have appeared in several leading cases that have shaped the field of social housing . They are regularly consulted on, and are instructed to draft, policies and tenancy agreements. Members appear throughout the country in courts and tribunals ranging from the Youth Court to the Supreme Court.

The Group holds a popular annual housing conference which attracts delegates from all over the country. As well as providing training on current topics this provides a welcome networking opportunity. Delegates always provide excellent feedback about the conference and return year after year.

Smaller seminars are held throughout the year and bespoke training is available upon request and can be delivered at clients’ places of business.

Barristers for Housing

Barristers

Michael Singleton

Call 1987

Richard Dewsbery

Call 1992

Karamjit Singh

Call 2000

Mark Jones

Call 2000

Tom Russell

Call 2004

Tom Lawal

Call 2008

Shabinah Ladha

Call 2011

Aadhithya Anbahan

Call 2015

Jane Talbot

Call 2016

Samuel Peake

Call 2019

Feargus Campbell

Call 2020

Emma Kelly

Call 2021

Jordan Warren

Call 2021

Adam Clay-Croome

Call 2021

Timothy Jones

Call 2022

Alyssa Callaway

Call 2022

Anjola Alabi

Call 2023

Pierre de Garis

Call 2023

Katie Goodman

Call 2023

Leoni Waghorn

Call 2024

George Fattal

Call 2024

Contact a clerk

Brett Moloney

Practice Manager for Business & Property, Civil and Housing

Billy Pettifer

Assistant Practice Manager for Business & Property, Civil and Housing

Stuart Walker

Civil and Family Assistant Practice Manager/Business Development East Midlands

7 Recommendations

Legal 500, 2025

"St Ives Chambers continues to field a strong team of housing law specialists with members’ expertise spanning antisocial behaviour cases, possession claims, and disrepair work, among other areas. With considerable experience handling all aspects of housing law, including tolerated trespasser and human rights issues, Michael Singleton heads the housing practice group at chambers. Richard Dewsbery is often instructed in relation to multi-day possession claims complicated by mental health and capacity issues. He also acts for landlords facing housing conditions claims. ‘Compelling and persuasive advocate’ Tom Lawal has notable experience in possession and injunction proceedings. Tom Russell and Ben Chapman are new recruits from KCH Garden Square."

Legal 500, 2024

"St Ives Chambers has ‘great quality and depth of knowledge on social housing issues’ and advises on anti-social behaviour, homelessness applications and unlawful eviction. Practice head Michael Singleton is ‘very knowledgeable and thoroughly prepared’."

Chambers and Partners, 2024

"St Ives Chambers represents a wide range of housing clients in the full spectrum of different housing issues in the Midlands. The set remains pre-eminent in this market, and its barristers act in complex possession proceedings and anti-social behaviour injunctions, in addition to other related matters. One client notes: "St Ives Chambers has a great deal of expertise in housing law." Another client says: "St Ives Chambers has one of the biggest and best selections of barristers in social housing." Particular highlights include the successful representation of Birmingham City Council concerning the application to strike out and restrict prolix and repetitive Particulars of Claim in disrepair claims. The clerks at St Ives Chambers are fantastic. They understand the pressures of fast-moving housing litigation and are incredibly responsive."

Legal 500, 2023

"St Ives Chambers is an ‘excellent set with a real in-depth expertise of housing law’ and handles matters related to anti-social behaviour, environmental protection act, nuisance, homelessness, and unlawful eviction. Michael Singleton heads the housing practice group and is handling a series of cases related to closure order of a council property to due to anti-social behaviour."

Chambers and Partners, 2023

"St Ives is an excellent chambers with knowledgeable, friendly and approachable barristers who are always ready to assist. Another client says: "St Ives Chambers provides us with the depth and breadth of knowledge and expertise we need to deal with our contentious and complex issues." The clerks always answer the phone and respond to emails promptly. They are always prepared to go the extra mile and help find a barrister to assist. They are able to identify the requirements of those approaching them for a barrister to take on their case."

Legal 500, 2022

"St Ives Chambers social housing team is led by Michael Singleton, who successfully defended a social landlord in a disability discrimination challenge to its allocation policy brought by a litigant in person. "

Chambers and Partners, 2022

"St Ives Chambers represents a wide range of housing clients in the full spectrum of different housing issues in the Midlands. The set remains pre-eminent in this market, and its barristers act in complex possession proceedings and anti-social behaviour injunctions, in addition to other related matters. One client notes: "All of the barristers at St Ives are always well prepared, professional and first-rate advocates." "The clerking staff are exceptional…friendly, efficient and incredibly organised and they always go the extra mile to assist. Nothing is too much trouble for the clerks and they make themselves available to go over and above."