Jamie’s first-six supervisor was Marina Sergides and his second-six supervisor is Nick Bano.
During his first-six, Jamie gained exposure to a broad range of housing and homelessness work. He has experience in drafting; pleadings in housing conditions claims, defences and counter-claims in possession proceedings, grounds and submissions in appeals under section 204, Housing Act 1996, statements of facts and grounds in judicial reviews under part 6, Housing Act 1996, skeleton arguments and advice across all key areas. He also assisted in undertaking research in relation to the case of R (on the application of Bano) v Waltham Forest in the Supreme Court.
Prior to commencing pupillage, Jamie worked as a tribunal advocate at the not-for-profit organisation Justice for Tenants, where he represented tenants in the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber), gaining experience of cross-examination and case presentation at final hearings. He has also acted in appeals to the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber), several of which have been reported. Whilst at Justice for Tenants, Jamie provided legal advice to local authorities in respect of their housing enforcement activities against landlords and agents for offences under the Housing Act 2004.
Jamie also previously worked as a caseworker at Hammersmith & Fulham Law Centre; representing defendants in possession proceedings in the County Court as a duty advisor through the Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service (HLPAS), offering specialist welfare benefits advice to individuals, and providing representation in appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber).
Housing Law
Overview
Jamie is building a practice across all areas of housing law including possession, housing conditions, anti-social behaviour, unlawful eviction, homelessness and allocations.
Jamie’s experience representing tenants at final hearings in the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) means he is adept at cross-examining multiple witnesses and presenting factually complex cases. His experience representing tenants as a possession duty advisor means he is used to thinking on his feet and putting clients at ease in court.
Jamie frequently writes for Legal Action Magazine and other publications on housing law developments. He has presented at conferences and delivered training on a broad range of housing law topics, including changes brought about by the Renters’ (Rights) Act 2025.
Jamie is on the executive committee of the Junior Housing Law Practitioners Association.
Notable Cases
Jamie has substantial experience representing tenants in the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber). He has also acted in a number of significant appeals to the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber), several of which have been reported.
Quantum of rent repayment orders
Jamie acted for the successful appellants in Chinn and others v Høilund-Carlsen and another [2026] UKUT 110 (LC) (at first-instance and PTA) in which the Upper Tribunal agreed that the quantum of a rent repayment order should not be reduced merely because a landlord is “inexperienced or has only the one property” [29]. The Upper Tribunal confirmed that inexperience is only relevant in cases of inadvertent breach and increased the rent repayment order to £10,322.
Reasonable excuse defences
Jamie acted for the respondent in Ojukwu v Onuoha [2024] UKUT 313 (LC), [2025] H.L.R. 5, [2025] which considered whether a landlord had a reasonable excuse for failing to obtain an HMO licence contrary to section 72(1), Housing Act 2004 because of alleged errors on a local authority’s website. The case was remitted back to the First-tier Tribunal where Jamie successfully rebutted the landlord’s defence by applying to adduce archived evidence of the local authority’s website from the time of the offence.
Computation of limitation periods
Jamie acted for the successful appellant in Jamroz v Ali [2025] UKUT 265 (LC), [2026] 1 P. & C.R. DG1 which confirmed that the time limit for a tenant to apply for a rent repayment order under section 41(2)(b), Housing and Planning Act 2016 does not expire until midnight on the final day of the limitation period.
He also acted for the appellants in Kemp and others v DIP Systems (UK) Ltd [2025] UKUT 233 (LC), [2025] 1 WLR 5210 and Stokki and others v Choudhury [2026] UKUT 11 (LC) [2026] WLR(D) 94, in which the Upper Tribunal provided important guidance regarding the interaction between exculpatory defences, the cessation of continuous offences, and the computation of limitation periods.
Tribunal procedure
Jamie acted for the successful respondents in Jevan v Athansiadi and another [2024] UKUT 358 (LC), | [2025] H.L.R. 17, which confirmed that the tenants’ application for a rent repayment order, which had been sent to the First-tier Tribunal by email, had been properly made in accordance with the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Property Chamber) Rules 2013 notwithstanding that the application fee had not yet been paid.
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Public Law
Overview
Jamie is building a practice across all areas of homelessness and allocations law, including public law challenges by way of judicial review and appeals under section 204, Housing Act 1996. He also has experience of raising public law arguments as a defence to possession proceedings.
He also hopes to build a public law practice involving Gypsy and Traveller law. During his first-six, he gained exposure to possession proceedings involving defendants from a Traveller background which engaged both public law and discrimination issues. He is a member of the recently established Gypsy Traveller Law Network.
