Young Street Chambers
76 Quay Street, Spinningfields
Manchester M3 4PR
Tel: 0161 833 0489
Fax: 0161 835 3938
DX: 25583 Manchester 5
Email: clerks@young-st-chambers.com

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public and administrative law

BVC (Manchester: Outstanding)

Housing
Peter represents local authorities, ALMOs, housing associations, private landlords and tenants, encompassing all aspects of housing law (particularly anti-social behaviour and possession, as well as homelessness and allocations, disrepair, trespass and illegal evictions) and related areas of local authority law (including statutory nuisance, licensing, some planning issues and some prosecution work).

Peter has found himself specialising in the law of gas inspections, particularly on forced entry through injunctions and environmental law, an issue on which he has written many articles and spoken at housing conferences and training events.

Anti-social behaviour
Peter specialises in all types of anti-social behaviour law, particularly ASB and other injunctions (and committals), freestanding and county court ASBOs, possession, statutory nuisance, harassment, and the crossover between them all.

Landlord and tenant
Peter represents private landlords and tenants on a range of matters, including anti-social behaviour, possession, forfeiture, disrepair, fraud and illegal eviction.

Local government
Peter does much work for local governments including statutory nuisance prosecution, licensing (particularly taxi) appeals, some planning issues (eg s.215 notices), harassment, injunctions, nuisance, and other environmental, education and trading standards prosecutions.

EXPERIENCE

Peter came to the Bar following a career in public housing and regeneration, in particular for Camden LBC and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Peter is a CEDR-accredited mediator.

Peter regularly delivers training in all the areas of law and practice listed above, some in association with HQN and the Rent Income Excellence Network, and is a regular contributor to Inside Housing’s legal coverage. In addition, Peter is an advisor to The Big Issue in the North and is on the Professional Advisory Panel for BPP law school.

Peter also practises and accepts public access work, with particular experience in the following areas:

• Administrative
• Common Law (General)
• Health & Safety
• Housing
• Landlord & Tenant
• Licensing
• Local Government
• Regulatory Law
• Town & Country Planning

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Peter is a member of the Housing Law Practitioners’ Association and the Social Housing Law Association.

Peter was a member of the Bar Council’s Neuberger Committee on Entry to the Bar, and continues to serve on the Neuberger Monitoring and Implementation Group, and on the Bar Standards Board’s Pupilage Review Group, under Derek Wood QC.  He is also on Middle Temple’s Scholarship Panel and is a co-opted member of the Young Barristers’ Committee and the Bar Council’s Policy Advisory Group.

Peter is also a member of the Management Committee of Young Street Chambers.