Peter Sibley

Planning

While a pupil, he gained experience of and assisted with a wide range of planning matters, including:

• Advising on a variety of planning law issues including the eligibility requirements to submit a blight notice and liability to community infrastructure levy.
• Preparing a witness statement to be used in a judicial review of a decision of the Building Safety Fund.
• Attending planning inquiries, including in relation to large housing developments in Hounslow and in Sheffield.

Property

Peter was the designated Property pupil, having developed his property law experience as a judicial assistant in the Court of Appeal to Lord Justice Patten and as a paralegal in the real estate litigation department of Mishcon de Reya LLP.

As a tenant, Peter:

• Regularly appears in, and advises in respect of, county court possession hearings acting for both claimants and defendants in both residential and commercial contexts.
• Regularly appears in case managements hearings in a variety of property related matters
• Regularly advises in respect of, and appears in, service charge disputes
• Has appeared before the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) in relation to a Rent Repayment Order
• Has appeared before the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) in proceedings concerning The Electronic Communications Code
• Regularly advises on a range of property related matters including easements, restrictive covenants, CVAs, common intention constructive trusts, adverse possession and conveyancing.
• Regularly drafts pleadings including in relation to possession, disrepair, dilapidations and debt recovery claims.

Peter was the designated Property pupil, having developed his property law experience as a judicial assistant in the Court of Appeal to Lord Justice Patten and as a paralegal in the real estate litigation department of Mishcon de Reya LLP.

As a pupil he gained experience of a wide range of property law issues including:

• Drafting pleadings in disrepair claims and possession claims
• Advising on a variety of property law issues, including the consequences of a failure to protect a tenancy deposit, an application to the land registry to alter the register, easements and the enforceability of restrictive covenants.
• Attending possession hearings relating to residential and commercial properties and a county court trial on relief from forfeiture.

As a paralegal in the real estate litigation department of Mishcon de Reya LLP, he worked on:

• Drafting various property notices, including break notices, notices under s.25 and s.26 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 and notices under s.146 of the Law of Property Act 1925.
• Document review and bundle preparation for a large misrepresentation claim relating to a multi-million-pound development.

As a judicial assistant in the Court of Appeal he worked on:

• Knight v Goulandris [2018] EWCA Civ 237, a decision on whether an award under the Party Wall etc Act 1996 could be validly served by email
• P&P Property Ltd v Owen White & Catlin LLP [2018] EWCA Civ 1082, a decision on the liability to an innocent purchaser of solicitors acting for the vendor and solicitors acting for the purchaser in a conveyancing fraud.
• Smith v Khan [2018] EWCA Civ 1137, a decision on the appropriate measure of damages following an unlawful eviction under an assured shorthold tenancy.

Insolvency

As a tenant, Peter:

• Has advised in respect of CVAs.
• Has attended bankruptcy petition hearings.

Rating and Valuation

As a tenant, Peter has advised in respect of initial hearings before the Magistrates’ Court concerning unpaid business rates.