Adam Swirsky
Call
Called 1989
Practice groups
Education
London School of Economics - BSc (Econ) and MSc
Polytechnic of Central London - Dip Law
Council of Legal Education
Practice
Property
Adam is a member of Lamb Chambers' Property team with experience dealing with all aspects of commercial and private landlord and tenant work, all aspects of real property disputes, cases involving mortgages or other charges, trusts and trusts of land. Adam also deals with inheritance and probate cases.
He is instructed by corporate, private and local authority clients.
Key areas of practice include:
• Commercial landlord and tenant disputes (including rent reviews; renewal of business tenancies; service charges; dilapidations and claims for compensation for improvements; forfeiture and other claims arising out of breach of covenants and issues of interpretation and enforceability of clauses)
• Residential landlord and tenant disputes (including disputes as to tenure; service charges and disrepair claims)
• Conveyancing and Land Registration
• Vendor and Purchaser
• Overage and option agreements
• Claims for adverse possession
• Party Walls and boundary disputes
• Easements and covenants
• Co-ownership, trusts and proprietary estoppel
• Public and private nuisance
• Mortgages and charges
• Claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975
• Wills and Probate
Housing & Local Government
• Social housing and homelessness
• Anti-social Behaviour
• Succession and the Right to Buy
• Local Government Finance
• Judicial Review
Commercial & Employment
Adam has extensive experience of business and employment disputes, regularly appearing in the High Court, County Court and the Employment Tribunal on a variety of matters. Work includes:
• The application of consumer credit legislation in a commercial relationship
• Orders for delivery up of goods
• Freezing and other injunctions
• Costs
• Construction disputes
• Partnership disputes
• Breach of contract and restrictive covenants
• Redundancy and business re-organisations
• Transfer of undertakings
• Discrimination and equal pay
• Unfair and wrongful dismissal
Recently Adam represented a number of women as part of a group claim for equal pay against their local authority employer.
Reported cases include
Bank of Cyprus -v- Markou and another [1999] 2 ALL ER 707 - whether a guarantee and legal charge should be set aside against a wife on the grounds that she was acting under the undue influence of her husband
R v Redbridge Youth Court (Respondent) & CPS (Interested Party), ex parte T (Applicant) [2002] EWHC 414 (Admin) - use of a video link in a case involving a child witness
McFaddens -v- Chandrasekaran [2007] EWCA Civ 220 - substantial claim by a solicitor to recover unpaid costs
Islam -v- Yap & Others [2009] EWHC 3606 (QB) - unlawful eviction of residential tenant
