Myriam Stacey KC

Property

In Silk since 2021, she is recognised in the leading UK Legal directories as notable practitioner and is valued for her technical ability, her ‘hands-on’, collaborative and commercial approach, her leadership skills, user friendly approach and her extensive experience as an advocate. Clients and instructing solicitors commend her " excellent legal brain”, and as being “a great tactician” and "a very powerful advocate and a very strong team player."

Myriam is regularly, and repeatedly, instructed by developers and landowners in connection with property issues arising in relation to the development of land. She has acted as both Counsel for the developer and legal expert in high value and contentious expert determinations and other such disputes including in relation to difficult issue of contractual interpretation , the exercise of options, the right to overage, nuisance and trespass claims, easements, restrictive covenants, the satisfaction of conditions contracts including reasonable endeavours obligations, claims for repudiatory breach and issues of valuation.

She has extensive experience of acting for clients across a wide range of general real property disputes as well as commercial and residential landlord and tenant disputes, including under the 1954 Act and and disputes concerning rights and liabilities under leases, including breach of user clauses (e.g. AGHR Ltd v Kane Laverack [2023] EWCA Civ 42), repairing obligations and dilapidations claims, forfeiture, break clauses, claims under guarantees and service charge issues.

Her practice also covers rapidly evolving areas of property law. She continues to be instructed for the Government and leaseholders in relation to claims under the Building Safety Act 2022. She is an established leading specialist in protest law and has particularly extensive experience of the complex procedures and legal issues arising in respect of applications and claims against ‘persons unknown’, across a range of different types of protests, and in recent years has regularly featured in reported cases to secure injunctions on behalf of a range of landowners in the High Court as well as in the Court of Appeal and the Divisional Court (eg in National Highways v Heyatawin [2021] EWHC 3093; National Highways v Buse [2021] EWHC 3404; National Highways v Persons Unknown [2023] EWHC 1073; [2023] EWCA Civ 182; Shell UK Ltd v Persons Unknown [2023] EWHC 1229); Exolum Pipeline System Ltd v Persons Unknown [2023]).

Myriam also has considerable experience of advising and assisting clients in relation to claims for the informal acquisition of rights to land including proprietary estoppel claims since acting as junior Counsel for the claimant at all levels up to House of Lords in Cobbe v Yeomans Row [2008] UKHL 55 and as sole Counsel in the Privy Council Henry v Henry [2010] 1 All ER 988.

Myriam’s practice also covers other property law areas including claims under the Land Registration Act 2002, boundary disputes and adverse possession. She recently appeared in the Privy Council in a claim concerning occupational rights and overriding interests (Chitolie v St Lucia National Housing Corporation [2023] UKPC 43 ). She also has experience dealing with disputes under the Electronic Communications Code 2017 and appeared on behalf of the operator in the Upper Tribunal and Court of Appeal in Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Ltd v Compton Beauchamp Estate Ltd [2019] EWCA Civ 1755.

In addition to her litigation practice, Myriam is often instructed to advise in relation to difficult points of law arising from transactional work.

She is co-Chair of the Property Group at Landmark Chambers.