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Published: 20th Feb 2025
Call 2005 | Silk 2023
Telephone 020 7831 0222 | Email [email protected]
Call 2005 | Silk 2023
Telephone 020 7831 0222 | Email [email protected]
Iris Ferber KC is a specialist in Employment, Property and Social Housing law, with a particular focus on litigation involving discrimination. She was called to the Bar in 2005, and was appointed to Silk in 2023.
Iris deals with high value, legally complex, factually difficult cases – and her cases often involve vulnerable parties and witnesses.
In her Employment practice, that includes all types of discrimination, whistleblowing, trade union detriment, health and safety detriment, historic and high value wages claims, and appeals. She appears in the Employment Tribunal, the High Court and the appellate courts.
In her Property practice, and particularly her specialism of Social Housing, Iris is very often instructed in cases involving allegations of discrimination under the Equality Act.
Iris also acts in cases of tenancy fraud and serious criminal and anti-social behaviour, and in cases involving highly technical aspects of property law, such as forfeiture, service charges, boundaries and tenancies at will.
Iris regularly represents appellants and respondents in statutory homelessness appeals and judicial reviews; she also writes on homelessness and allocations for the Lexis+ service.
Iris has been recommended by both Legal 500 and Chambers UK, in both the Employment rankings and the Social Housing rankings, since 2018.
Iris Ferber KC conducts the full range of Employment Tribunal and appellate work, acting regularly for both employees and employers. She provides advice, and undertakes drafting work, in all aspects of Employment litigation.
Iris works with a wide range of employers, from public sector and national companies with thousands of employees, to small businesses and individuals.
She also represents claimants in complex, high value, and high-profile claims.
Iris is particularly sought after in cases requiring the handling of vulnerable parties and witnesses. Her clients often instruct her in the early stages of litigation, when she can advise not only on the shaping of the legal issues in their dispute, but also on procedure, practicalities, and litigation tactics.
Iris provides Employment Law training to solicitors and companies: both seminars on current legal issues, and practical workshops on employee management and litigation.
Notable Cases
Iris began her legal career in 2006 as a Housing specialist. Since then, she has always maintained a busy Housing practice and a keen interest in Housing law.
Iris regularly deals with all aspects of Housing law and has long experience in dealing with complex anti-social behaviour cases, including those involving mental health issues, on behalf of both landlords and tenants.
She is particularly good at dealing with vulnerable clients and witnesses, and managing the complex legal arguments involved in Equality Act, public law and Human Rights cases.
Iris’s expertise in discrimination law generally (because of her combined practice in Housing and Employment Law) makes her particularly adept at handling Equality Act claims and defences.
Iris has extensive experience of homelessness litigation, including s204 appeals in the County Court, judicial review in the High Court, and appeals to the Court of Appeal. She regularly trains local authorities on homelessness law and procedure.
Iris also delivers very popular workshops, both online and in person to solicitors and clients at their offices, on all aspects of Housing litigation. She is a Committee member of the Social Housing Law Association.
Notable Cases
Iris Ferber KC is a highly experienced property litigator.
She appears in the First-tier Tribunal, the County Court, the High Court and the Court of Appeal in a wide range of property disputes. She is valued by her clients for her technical expertise and her “forensic, detailed and devastating cross-examination”.
Clients also value Iris’s efficient turnaround of advisory and drafting work, and her thorough, practical and client-friendly advice.
Iris is instructed in a very wide range of property matters, and especially in:
Iris is also particularly sought after in professional negligence disputes arising from the sale of land.
Notable Cases
Iris Ferber KC has a Commercial litigation practice focused principally on contractual disputes involving misrepresentation, undue influence, duress and fraud, as well as professional negligence.
Her Commercial practice also crosses over with her Employment practice in disputes relating to post-termination restrictive covenants, where Iris is valued both for her ability to provide practical, strategic advice which avoids litigation and – when a case does proceed to Court – for her exceptional Courtroom presence and “forensic, detailed and devastating cross-examination”.
Iris delivers very popular workshops, both online and in person to solicitors and clients, on all aspects of restrictive covenant disputes, contractual disputes and professional negligence.
Notable Cases
Iris Ferber is authorised to accept instructions direct from members of the public. She encourages clients who are considering this route to contact Chambers and discuss their problem.
In suitable cases, Iris can provide client conferences, written advices and representation at court. Iris accepts public access work across Chambers’ areas of expertise.
Register here for our Civil Fraud Webinars, taking place from October 2024 to February 2025.
Published: 20th Feb 2025
Recording of our 'Section 19A of the Equality Act 2010: a brand new cause of action?' webinar.
Published: 23rd Jan 2025
42BR's Housing Group invite you to their in person Christmas event on Wednesday 11 December 2024
Published: 11th Dec 2024
Catch up on the recording of our latest civil fraud webinar, covering 'Commercial Fraud'.
Published: 9th Dec 2024
Watch the recording of our recent 'Holiday pay' webinar
Published: 4th Dec 2024
Watch the recordings of our Employment Law Webinars, which took place between September to December 2024.
Published: 3rd Dec 2024
Recording of our latest webinar - 'Introduction to Civil Fraud'
Published: 8th Oct 2024
42BR Barristers is delighted to mark 75 Years of Women Silks at the Bar.
Published: 1st Oct 2024
Recording of our latest housing webinar
Published: 18th Jul 2024
42BR Barristers is delighted to share that we have been shortlisted for 6 awards, across three practice areas, at The Legal 500 Bar Awards 2024.
Published: 9th Jul 2024
Iris Ferber KC has become a committee member for the Social Housing Law Association.
Published: 20th Jun 2024
We're delighted to share that Iris, Stefan and Hazel have been included in the inaugural Pro Bono Recognition List of England and Wales.
Published: 17th Jun 2024
Introducing the next three webinars in the series.
Published: 24th Apr 2024
The second episode in our Introduction to Disability Discrimination Law for Housing Lawyers.
Published: 1st Mar 2024
42BR Barristers' Housing and Employment Groups are delighted to present the first two installments of our upcoming 'Introduction to Disability Discrimination Law for Housing Lawyers' events.
Published: 13th Dec 2023
A Housing Law webinar presented by Iris Ferber KC and Stefan Liberadzki.
Published: 26th May 2023
Iris Ferber and Jamie Fireman present a practical Housing webinar.
Published: 7th Mar 2023
Chambers is delighted to announce that Iris Ferber has been successful in 2022 Kings Counsel competition
Published: 23rd Dec 2022
We are delighted to present our Virtual Pupillage Open Evening 2022.
Published: 24th Nov 2022
Join us for this in person seminar on Thursday 8 December, from 09:30am.
Published: 24th Nov 2022
Iris Ferber and Krishma Patel present a webinar on preparing defences in possession claims
Published: 31st Oct 2022
In person Housing Event in conjunction with SHLA
Published: 28th Jul 2022
42 Bedford Row members Iris Ferber and Andrew Carter have recorded a training session on EPA Disrepair: Proving the Elements of an EPA Offence.
Published: 27th May 2022
Members of the Employment Team will take a look at some of the changes to the way we work caused by the Pandemic.
Published: 17th Nov 2021
Housing Webinar with team members Iris Ferber and Angela Piears.
Published: 3rd Nov 2021
Interactive Housing Webinar
Published: 1st Sep 2021
Iris Ferber discusses the recent High Court decision in R (Minott) v Cambridge City Council [2021] EWHC 211 (Admin): Scope of “Local Connection” in Homelessness Applications
Published: 5th Mar 2021
Published: 2nd Nov 2020
Published: 17th Apr 2020
Chambers are thrilled to have 17 individual recommendations/rankings in the new Chambers & Partners 2019.
Published: 8th Nov 2018
Welcome to the latest roundup from our barristers at 42 Bedford Row Employment Practice, with the latest news and unique insights from our team.
Published: 23rd Aug 2018
Mental 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
Published: 30th May 2017
Welcome to this, the 18th bulletin from the Housing Team. We hope that you will find the content of interest: if you wish to receive further updates you can subscribe by replying to [email protected] Forfeiture for non-payment of service charges Last month, we ran a workshop in Chambers exploring the law and procedure of forfeiting a
Published: 9th Jan 2017
Awards & Recognition