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Amanda is a Solicitor in the Social Housing Litigation Team based in the Leeds office having joined the firm in 2019. Amanda work closely with the team led by Simon Thirtle.

Amanda assists registered providers of social housing with all aspects of housing management, however she has a particular focus on anti-social behaviour and housing disrepair. Amanda regularly advocates on her own hearings.

Experience

Amanda regularly provides assistance to RPs in the resolution of anti-social behaviour with a particular focus on injunction and possession claims (including accelerated possession claims and trespass).

She also has experience of issuing proceedings to deal with specific breaches of lease, such as rental arrears, failure to maintain property and access injunctions.

Assisting the department’s leasehold practice, Amanda has developed her knowledge surrounding a variety of leasehold matters both contentious and non-contentious. Matters worked on include a large-scale, multiple property lease variation and claims for unpaid service charges and ground rent.

Amanda also regularly deals with claims for housing disrepair – both pre-action and fully litigated – for a number of Housing Association and Local Authority landlords.

 

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