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  • Overview

    With almost 10 years’ experience in legal practice – across barristers’ chambers; Legal 500 solicitors’ firms and Local Government – Rabby is confident on his feet; experienced beyond his years of call and has already successfully appeared in the First Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber); the County Court; the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) and the High Court.

    Rabby has represented private/social-housing tenants; private/institutional landlords; High Net Worth individuals; SMEs; property developers; banks and Local Government.

    Rabby has been praised for his clear, elegant, and impressive drafting skills; analytical precision; creativity; ability to think rigorously and laterally; research skills and adaptability to new areas of law – tackling complex issues with conscientiousness and comfort.

    Rabby has worked in-house, as well as, in private practice – giving him a strong grasp of the commercial realities of business/property disputes.

    Rabby has, also, undertaken both Foundation and Advanced Mediation Skills training with the Society of Mediators.

  • Property

    Rabby accepts instructions in all areas of property law, across both landlord/tenant and real property disputes.

    Prior to joining New Square Chambers, Rabby undertook his pupillage at a pre-eminent property-specialist set, where he completed a range of advisory/drafting work, including:

    • Forfeiture and possession
    • Injunctions/Nuisance
    • LTA 1954 Act renewals/disputes
    • Dilapidations
    • Co-Ownership/TOLATA
    • Right to Light
    • Easements
    • Restrictive Covenants and Discharge/Modification
    • Adverse Possession
    • Rent Reviews
    • Service Charges/RTM
    • Enfranchisement and lease extensions
    • Land Registry matters
    • Corporate Insolvency
    • Proprietary Estoppel

    Prior to joining the Bar, Rabby was part of a specialist in-house legal team representing a Local Authority’s financial interests and reputation in (multi-million pound) residential service charges disputes, both inside and outside of court.

    In this role, he successfully appeared in the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber); advised Local Government on novel/untested legal issues and risk exposure; settled a million-pound dispute against 25 leaseholders and had a 100% success rate in all First-Tier Tribunal applications.

    Rabby has also previously worked at Legal 500 solicitors’ firms – where he ran his own caseload of business/property disputes (valued upto £100,000); drafted statutory notices including: s.5, s.21, s.25, s.26, s.42, s.45 and s.146 notices; and regularly appeared at Possession Proceedings, CCMCs, Interlocutory Hearings and mediations

  • Company & Insolvency

    Rabby has previous experience in:

    • Partnership and Shareholder disputes
    • Winding Up/Bankruptcy Petitions
    • Corporate Insolvency
    • Debt Claims
    • Advising on injunctions to restrain presentation of a petition
    • Obtaining validation orders

    Rabby has appeared successfully in the County Court and the Insolvency and Companies Court; secured a judicial reference from Former Chief Registrar Baister and marshalled Deputy ICC Judge Schaffer.

  • Commercial Litigation

    Rabby has previous experience in:

    • Conversion
    • Unjust Enrichment
    • Professional Negligence

    Before coming to the Bar, Rabby ran his own businesses; worked in-house at a private-equity firm and has ran his own caseload of business/property disputes (valued upto £100,000) at a Legal 500 solicitors’ firm. This experience gives him an insight into the practicalities and realities of business, as well as, a strong sense of commerciality.

  • Education

    • Barrister Training Course (BTC) (Distinction)
    • MA (Oxon) Jurisprudence, University of Oxford
  • Awards

    • Buchannan Prize (Lincoln’s Inn)
    • Lord Denning Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn)
    • BPP Advocacy Scholar
    • Award of Outstanding Academic Excellence
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