Iris Ferber KC

2005 | Silk 2023
020 7831 0222 | [email protected]

Iris Ferber KC

2005 | Silk 2023
020 7831 0222 | [email protected]

Property Law

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:

Service charge disputes
All other aspects of residential landlord and tenant
Commercial landlord and tenant
Boundary disputes and adverse possession
Disputes arising from cohabitation
Restrictive covenant litigation
Conveyancing-related disputes
Property fraud

Iris is also particularly sought after in professional negligence disputes arising from the sale of land.

Notable Cases

Since 2022, Iris has acted for the victim of a complex cryptocurrency fraud, in proceedings to recover ownership of his home of 30 years from a third party purchaser who had not been involved in the fraud; the trial involved extremely complex facts, as well as novel legal arguments about constructive knowledge of third party duress and undue influence. Iris remains instructed in a parallel professional negligence dispute with the victim’s conveyancing solicitors.
In 2023, 2024 and 2025, Iris has acted for and advised in a number of cases of conveyancing negligence and misrepresentation, including several claims arising from the sale of properties infested with Japanese Knotweed.
In 2023, Iris acted for a defendant lacking mental capacity in the multi-track trial of a highly unusual boundary dispute: involving mirror pleadings (by both claimant and defendant) of boundary ownership, with adverse possession in the alternative.
Since 2020, Iris has been acting for the freehold company of a block of flats in North London, in FTT litigation against a leaseholder of two adjoining flats with repeated and very high service charge arrears. A series of FTT trials in respect of each flat has involved extremely serious allegations against the freeholder, all of which have been successfully resolved.

Business Law

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

During 2024 and 2025, Iris has been leading Jonathan Davies of 42BR in long-running High Court commercial litigation, on behalf of a company whose directors set up a rival business, resulting in claims of breach of directors’ duties, breach of covenant, misuse of confidential information, and a number of other heads of claim.
During 2023, 2024 and 2025, Iris has been instructed in a number of disputes, by both corporations and local authorities, involving serial vexatious litigants. Iris has drafted pleadings and submissions in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, and has advised on tactics for handling and resolving such cases.
In 2022, Iris was instructed by the London Borough of Newham to obtain winding up orders against over 20 insolvent companies, which had been involved in the multi-million pound development of the Royal Albert Dock. Iris later successfully resisted a hard-fought application by those companies to rescind the winding up orders, involving technical questions of the service of the winding up petitions.

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