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Christi joined chambers in 2015 and has a broad practice including tribunal, county court and high court matters. She also sits part time as a Disability Member in the First Tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber). Before her call to the Bar, Christi worked within Citizens’ Advice Bureaux, from which she brings a highly practical, client focused approach to advocacy. Her experience includes:
Drafting claims and defences relating to breach of contract. Procedural litigation. Drafting terms and conditions for use on e-commerce websites.
Employment tribunal representation. Contract drafting in respect of the provision of professional services.
Acting in matrimonial finance, and private and public law children’s and domestic violence related proceedings including appearing for the Metropolitan Police in relation to cross-disclosure between civil and criminal proceedings.
Court appearances in personal and commercial insolvency matters including urgent instructions.
Small claim and fast track advocacy. Drafting advice on causation, quantum and liability including schedules of loss.
Regular court appearances in private and social landlord possession hearings, and experience of trespass, disrepair, public law and Equality Act issues.
Christi welcomes instructions from both employers and employees. While working at Citizens Advice, she frequently assisted employees in negotiation and making employment tribunal claims. Christi’s employment law experience includes appearing for the claimant in the widely discussed case of Podlasiak v Edinburgh Woollen Mill ET/2701291/13. She successfully argued that a contractual token payment in lieu of holiday pay on termination of employment was not permissible under EU law.
Christi is authorised to accept direct access instructions from members of the public.
Christi joined chambers in 2015 and has a broad practice including tribunal, county court and high court matters. She also sits part time as a Disability Member in the First Tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber). Before her call to the Bar, Christi worked within Citizens’ Advice Bureaux, from which she brings a highly practical, client focused approach to advocacy. Her experience includes:
In this Bulletin, Christi Scarborough discusses banning orders: what are they? When would one be used? What are their consequences? Banning Orders – what are they and how do they work? Christi Scarborough looks at new powers available to Local Authorities from 6 April 2018, and the circumstances under which private landlords or letting and
1st May 2018 Read moreMental Health Issues in Housing Litigation During April and May 2017, we ran a 2-part workshop in Chambers exploring the law and procedure on dealing with mental health issues in housing cases. This Bulletin is intended as a follow-up note for those of you who attended, and as a general practice note for those of
30th May 2017 Read moreChristi Scarborough discusses the recent Supreme Court case of Poshteh v. RBKC, addressing the overlap between the Part VII procedure and Article 6 ECHR as well as the discretion given to reviewing officers. Poshteh in the Supreme Court: (i) Part VII Housing Act 1996 entitlement and ‘civil rights’ and (ii) a restatement of the importance
16th May 2017 Read moreThis bulletin discusses the recent Court of Appeal case of Poshteh v the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea [2015] EWCA Civ 711.
29th July 2015 Read more
