Anthony Verduyn
UK Bar Guide 2025
Band 1 : Real Estate Litigation
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About
Provided by Anthony Verduyn
Practice Areas
Real estate litigation (including overage, restrictive covenants, boundaries, easements and trusts of land); commercial and residential landlord and tenant (including dilapidations, break notices and forfeiture); land registration; professional negligence in property matters (including conveyancers, surveyors and brokers); and social housing.
Career
Called 1993 (Lincoln's Inn); Head of St Philips Chambers Business and Property Group; Recorder (Civil, 2009; Private Family, 2013; Public Law Family, 2017); Judge, First Tier Tribunal Property Chamber (formerly, Deputy Adjudicator to HM Land Registry (2008) and Lawyer Chairman of the Residential Property Tribunal (2006)); Chancellor of Lichfield Diocese (2022); ADR Group Accredited Mediator and CEDR trained mediation advocate. Recent cases of interest: Howe Properties v Accent Housing (2024) (CA) - management fees recovery in large residential estate; Re Ilfracombe Holiday Park (2021) - £2.7 million service charge claim; Whitcroft v Fallon (2021) - partition of development land dispute; Griffiths v Grayburn (2019) - appeal before the Chancellor on construction of conveyance; Bryant Homes Ltd v Stein Management Ltd [2017] 1 P & CR 6 - restrictive covenants and money payment obligations; Yedina v Yedin [2017] EWHC 3319 (Ch) - challenging a deed and beneficial interests (12 day trial).
Professional Memberships
Property Bar Association; Midland Chancery and Commercial Bar Association; Birmingham Law Society (Property and Development Committee member); Ecclesiastical Law Society.
Personal
Attended University of Durham, Collingwood College, BA (Hons) first, University of Oxford, Wolfson College, D.Phil., and City University. Contributor to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and academic journals. Leisure interests include history, fine wine, brutalist architecture and foreign travel.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Anthony Verduyn is widely lauded for the depth of his knowledge of property law. He acts in a variety of cases ranging from leasehold disputes to rights of light cases and forfeiture matters. He has extensive experience appearing at the High Court, including opposite KCs. In addition to serving as an advocate, he sits as a part-time judge in the Property Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Anthony Verduyn is an excellent barrister who has a sharp eye for detail and is very knowledgeable about technical points of property law. He is definitely someone you want in your corner."
"Tony Verduyn has an uncanny knack of pulling rabbits out of legal hats."
"Anthony Verduyn is an excellent barrister who has a sharp eye for detail and is very knowledgeable about technical points of property law. He is definitely someone you want in your corner."
"Tony Verduyn has an uncanny knack of pulling rabbits out of legal hats."
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