Howard Lederman - 42BR Barristers

Howard Lederman

Call 1982
Telephone 020 7831 0222 | Email [email protected]

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Howard Lederman

Call 1982
Telephone 020 7831 0222 | Email [email protected]

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Howard Lederman is a specialist Barrister providing advocacy and advisory services in Landlord and Tenant and Property work with a particular interest in service charges, licensing and regulatory issues affecting private sector and public sector landlords and tenants.  

Howard's specialisms include:

  • Extensive experience in legal aspects of management of housing and multiple leaseholds including appointment of manager, variation of lease, long term stock transfer
  • Extensive experience in licensing of house in multiple occupations and associated penalties  
  • Building Safety Act costs and recoveries
  • Commercial landlord and tenant, including renewals rent reviews, dilapidations, forfeiture
  • Residential landlord and tenant, including leasehold enfranchisement and service charges
  • Telecommunications law related to real property
  • Options, Easements, restrictive covenants/planning
  • Property finance, mortgages and consumer credit
  • Property related insolvency and fraud
  • Title and the sale and registration of land
  • Professional negligence: solicitors, valuers, agents
  • Timeshare – advisory and contentious issues

Landlord & Tenant

Howard has a wide range of experience in many aspects of landlord and tenant relationships including;

  • Service charges and management in residential and commercial properties; Building Safety Act
  • Houses in Multiple Occupation, licensing, civil penalties, rent repayment order
  • Business tenancy renewals
  • Leasehold extensions; collective enfranchisement
  • Rent reviews
  • Stock transfer public sector housing and associated Equality Act issues
  • Telecommunications
  • Timeshare fractional and holiday ownership and associated consumer credit  financial service issues
  • Associated Professional negligence issues

Property

Howard’s Property relate work experience includes:

  • Land registration disputes including rectification and mistake
  • Options
  • Property related insolvency and fraud
  • Conveyancing disputes
  • Mortgages
  • Undue influence and incapacity
  • Associated Professional negligence issues relating to solicitor valuer and agents

Selected cases

  • Gorgievski v Griffiths | [2025] H.L.R. 41
  • 1 Palace Gate, London W8 5LS LON/00AW/LVM/2023/0008
  • Toner v Telford Homes Ltd [2022] EWHC 634 (QB)
  • Michael Maunder Taylor v Eperstein SARL LON/00AW/LSC/2019/0301
  • 2-12 Somercoates Close, Barnet, LON/00AC/OCE/2021/0060
  • 12b St. Johns Crescent, London SW9 7LZ : LON/00AY/LSC/2023/0383.
  • 8 Eton Hall, Eton College Road, NW3 2DW LON/00AG/LSC/2021/0294
  • Geyfords Ltd v O’Sullivan [2015] UKUT 683 (LC);
  • Garcha v Charity Commission for England and Wales [2015] W.T.L.R. 453
  • Shellpoint Trustees Ltd v Barnett [2012] 3 E.G.L.R. 115
  • Mohammadi v Shellpoint Trustees Ltd [2010] 1 All E.R. 433
  • Beardsley Theobalds Retirement Benefit Scheme Trustees v Yardley [2011] EWHC 1380
  • Trans-World Investments Ltd v Dadarwalla [2008] 1 P. & C.R. 18
  • Sahota v Singh [2006] EWHC 344 (Ch)
  • Mohammadi v Anston Investments Ltd [2004] H.L.R. 8
  • Soteriou v Ultrachem Ltd [2004] I.R.L.R. 870
  • Pratt v Medwin (2003-04) 6 I.T.E.L.R. 131
  • H (A Child) v S (Damages) Court of Appeal [2003] Q.B. 965
  • Straudley Investments Ltd v Mount Eden Land Ltd (No.1) (1997) 74 P. & C.R. 306
  • Mallory v Butler [1991] 1 W.L.R. 458

Publications

Direct Access

Howard is authorised to accept instructions direct from members of the public. He encourages clients who are considering this route to contact Chambers and discuss their problem.

Areas of Expertise


Qualifications

Trained Mediator

Scholarships & Awards

Atkin Arden Mould Scholarship Grays Inn

Memberships & Committees

  • Property Bar Association
  • Fee paid Tribunal Judge Residential Property Tribunal Service
  • Fee paid Tribunal Judge War Pension and Armed Forces Compensation Chamber

Education

  • BA Jurisprudence (1st class) Hertford College Oxford

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Recovery of Legal Costs as a Service Charge – What Has Changed Since Arnold v Britton?

Recovery of Legal Costs as a Service Charge – What Has Changed Since Arnold v Britton?

The Supreme Court in Arnold v Britton [2015] A.C. 1619 has ruled that there are no special rules of interpretation which apply to service charge clauses. The old “restrictive” approach to the interpretation of service charge clauses has been criticised. The recovery of a landlord’s legal costs as a service charge remains a troublesome area, where the impact of Arnold v Britton is still being worked out.

Published: 23rd Feb 2016

Dispensing with the need to consult about service charges – at what cost?

Dispensing with the need to consult about service charges – at what cost?

The Supreme Court has changed the law about dispensing with the need for consultation for qualifying works or qualifying long term agreements where tenants of residential dwellings have to pay service charges: Daejan v Benson [2013] UKSC 14. The requirements for consultation in the 2003 Regulations (2003 SI 1987) are complex and lengthy. They vary according to

Published: 8th Mar 2013

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