Naoise represents registered providers and private clients on a broad range of property and housing management issues, including nuisance and anti-social behaviour, committal applications, equality act and human rights claims, leasehold claims, possession claims, property condition claims, contract claims, succession and abandonment.
Recent experience
- Advising a registered provider on complex Equality Act and human rights claims based on alleged discrimination.
- Successfully applying to strike out a counterclaim for disability discrimination where there were clearly no merits;
- Successfully obtaining injunctions and possession orders on complex antisocial behaviour cases involving threats to life.
- Working on a Court of Appeal test case about housing legislation in Wales relating to fitness for human habitation.
- Advising a registered provider on a complex breach of lease dispute by a superior landlord.
- Successfully defending section 21 proceedings brought against a private client and obtaining significant settlement sums in a pre-action disrepair counterclaim.
- Advising clients on dealing with complex antisocial behaviour and tenancy management cases involving vulnerable tenants.
Career Experience
2024 - present: Solicitor, Winckworth Sherwood LLP
2023 - 2024: Solicitor, Ward Hadaway LLP
2021 - 2023: Trainee Solicitor, Ward Hadaway LLP