Call date: 1992

Memberships:
SE Circuit

Teams:

Crime

Personal injury and clinical negligence

Land: tenure and interests

Contract and commercial

Employment

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Russell Butcher

Called to the Bar in 1992 Russell Butcher was a volunteer assistant at South Islington Law Centre before taking up a position as a legal adviser to the property team at Hambro Legal Protection (now Capita) advising on all aspects of property law with an emphasis on Landlord and Tenant both commercial and residential.

In 1997 he became an adviser with the Leasehold Advisory Service, in London, a Department of an  environment funded company specialising in public and private sector Landlord and Tenant and residential leasehold reform. On being made a senior adviser he was responsible for a small team of lawyers and provided specialist advice and training to the Public, Professionals , Local Authorities  and Housing Associations  with an emphasis on the areas of leasehold valuation Tribunal procedure, service charge disputes and enfranchisement. L.E.A.S.E. also advises Government Departments  on leasehold reform and was closely involved in the consultation and introduction of the Commonhold and   Leasehold Reform Act 2002.

Russell undertakes a broad range of Civil work but with a particular emphasis on property litigation including Landlord and Tenant, boundary disputes and possession proceedings (relating to both residential and business premises).  He has represented the Local Authority, private landlords and tenants in Leasehold Valuation Tribunals regarding service charge and enfranchisement of flats.  Russell has also represented parties before the HM Land Registry Adjudicator.

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