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