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Adrian Marshall Williams

Year of Call: 1998

"Adrian is an intelligent, meticulous, brave and brilliant advocate. He produces excellent written work. He is very committed to cases and goes the extra mile."

Legal 500, 2025 (Social Housing)

"Adrian has excellent expertise in all aspects housing law. He is a fearless advocate."

Chambers UK, 2025 (Social Housing)

"Adrian has an exceptional eye for detail and identifies and pursues novel points that other counsel often miss."

Legal 500, 2024 (Social Housing)

"Adrian Marshall Williams is an excellent barrister. He has exceptional attention to detail with no stone left unturned."

Chambers UK, 2024 (Social Housing)

"Adrian is one of the best. He has an ability to spot and develop the most unexpected arguments, and is a pleasure to work with."

Chambers UK, 2023 (Social Housing)

"Adrian prepares succinct pleadings that capture all the legal points including complex points of law in relation to discrimination and public law."

Legal 500, 2022 (Social Housing)

"His wide-ranging experience includes homelessness appeals, cases involving anti-social behaviour issues, service charges and disrepair."

Legal 500, 2021 (Social Housing)

"He has a keen eye for detail and will spot any novel or unusual legal or other argument that might be available, and will not be afraid to run with it."

Legal 500, 2020

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Adrian practices across the range of housing and property law. His practice encompasses many types of possession claims. He has wide-ranging experience of cases involving mental health or capacity issues and being instructed by the Official Solicitor on behalf of protected parties.

Housing Law

Overview

Adrian’s work in housing law has a significant focus on acting for occupiers in complicated anti-social behaviour cases, and raising public law defences as well as tenancy deposit scheme cases, succession cases, mortgage possession proceedings and claims under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996. As an experienced property litigator he also advises and represents in other property related disputes such as service charges. He also regularly advises and represents clients in areas such as right to buy cases, unlawful eviction, harassment and disrepair.

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Community Care Law

Overview

Adrian has wide-ranging experience of cases involving mental health or capacity issues and being instructed by the Official Solicitor on behalf of protected parties.

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Administrative and Public Law

Overview

Public law work is a particular focus of Adrian’s practice, centring on homelessness appeal in county courts and judicial review cases in the High Court in housing and community care.

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Adrian Marshall Williams

Notable Cases & News

Garden Court Chambers celebrates 50th Anniversary

This year marks 50 years of Garden Court Chambers winning ground-breaking cases of constitutional importance.

Friday 31 May 2024

Islington Council must pay costs after dismissing tenant’s long-term homosexual partner as friend in succession case

Adrian Marshall Williams prepared the defence and written submissions and Oscar Davies represented Mr Bariotakis at trial. Both are part of the Garden Court Housing Law Team. They were instructed by Serdar Celebi at Islington Law Centre via legal aid.

Wednesday 3 Apr 2024

Housing Law Handbook: A Practical Guide (Law Society, 2nd edition)

Edited by Stephen Cottle. Contributors: Tim Baldwin, Adrian Berry, Tessa Buchanan, Sophie Caseley, Justine Compton, Sebastian Elgueta, Ed Fitzpatrick, Kevin Gannon, Adrian Marshall Williams, David Renton, Desmond Rutledge and Marina Sergides.

Thursday 27 Aug 2020

Garden Court Housing Team responds to Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government consultation on ‘A new deal for renters’

The Garden Court Housing Team welcomes the government’s proposal to abolish no fault evictions (based on s.21 Housing Act 1988).

Tuesday 15 Oct 2019

The Garden Court Chambers Housing Team respond to the consultation of Terms of Reference of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry has called for responses to the consultation of Terms of Reference.

Thursday 3 Aug 2017

Garden Court and Stephanie Harrison QC shortlisted for Human Rights and Public Law awards

Garden Court has been shortlisted at the Chambers Bar Awards, whilst Stephanie and our Public Law Team are shortlisted at the Legal 500 Awards.

Friday 21 Oct 2016
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Background

Adrian came to the bar through a commitment to human rights. He previously worked as a legal officer for Liberty doing policy work and test case litigation. He was also involved for many years in the management of Brixton Advice Centre.

Adrian worked as a legal officer for Liberty (the National Council for Civil Liberties), including policy and test case litigation. He was vice-chair of the management committee of Brixton Advice Centre. He is a member of the management committee of Tower Hamlets Law Centre.

Publications

Adrian contributed chapters to the Housing Law Handbook, (Law Society, 2009) and written for Landlord and Tenant Review: ‘The new affordable rent tenancies’, volume 15, number 5 (2011).

He previously compiled Legislating for Human Rights: The Parliamentary Debates on the Human Rights Bill (Hart, 2000) and co-authored ‘Hate Speech, Holocaust Denial and International Human Rights Law’, European Human Rights Law Review (1999).

Training and seminars

Adrian has extensive experience of providing training to solicitors, caseworkers and other advisors in housing and community care related issues.

Education

  • MA (Edin)
  • Diploma in Law 1997

Professional Memberships

  • Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA)
  • Housing Law Practitioners Association (HLPA)

Languages

  • Spanish
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