Matthew Winn-Smith

Matthew has a broad general commercial and common law practice covering many areas in which chambers specialises. He enjoys the advisory side of his practice but particularly relishes court room advocacy. Matthew prides himself on his practical and user friendly approach. He accepts instructions on a Direct Access basis.

Further information

Qualifications

2003: Called to the Bar (Lincoln’s Inn)

2002: Inns of Court School of Law, Bar Vocational Course

2001: University of Oxford (Regent’s Park College); MA (Jurisprudence)

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association
COMBAR
Property Bar Association

Interests

Triathlon, extreme endurance challenges (preferably not work related) and good food.

Property

Matthew is instructed in a wide range of property disputes including landlord & tenant (residential and commercial), disrepair and dilapidations, mortgages, co-ownership disputes, public sector housing and nuisance.

Related cases of interest

Fattal v Fattal [2022] EWHC 950 (Ch) – A case concerning the beneficial interests in a property which was found to have been transferred by a businessman in the mistaken belief that his brother had paid £400,000 to him another pursuant to an oral agreement.

Surer v Driver [2021] EWHC 737 (TCC) – An application for an injunction in the TCC to enable urgent repair work to be carried out to a potentially dangerous residential property.

Rubin v Purim — Multi-jurisdictional (Israel and England) family property dispute involving beneficial interests in several properties.

Guthrie v Nicholson — Dispute re alleged misrepresentations as to flooding.

Ali & Islam v Tyley — Forfeiture / insurance dispute.

Kelleher v Enterprise Inns — Tree root subsidence / nuisance dispute.

L’aimable v Peri-Bay Restaurants Ltd — Disrepair claim with interesting factual and causation complexity.

Kainth v Mal — Building dispute.

*This barrister is authorised to practice in England & Wales. Click here to search on the Bar Standards Board Barristers’ Register.

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