Alistair Cantor
Alistair came to the Bar after a career in the City of London at a major investment bank. He has practised extensively in property since the outset of his legal career and has gained wide-ranging experience in all types of disputes in the County Court, High Court, and Residential Property and Land Registration Chambers of the First-Tier Tribunal. His experience in the field includes: residential and commercial landlord and tenant; possession claims; civil fraud, misrepresentation and rescission; rent arrears and debt claims; forfeiture; trusts over land, co-ownership and ToLATA claims; service charge disputes; boundary disputes; nuisance; and dilapidations claims.
His past work in this field includes:
• The non-contentious drafting written statements of occupation contracts for a large number of major Welsh landlords following the implementation of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016
• Mayor and Burgesses of the Brent London Borough Council and another v Malvern Mews Tenants Association Ltd [2020] All ER (D) 192 (Apr); [2020] EWHC 1024 (Ch): Alistair represented the successful respondent. The case raised an important point as to the position of defendants to and evidential burdens in claims for negative declarations as to the absence of legal rights.
• Providing non-contentious advice to a major private landlord on its standard tenancy documents and procedures.