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Myriam is a specialist property practitioner, renowned as “an all-round heavy-weight property silk” with extensive experience across a wide spectrum of real property and commercial and residential landlord and tenant work.
In Silk since 2021, she is recognised in the leading UK Legal directories as notable practitioner and is valued for her technical ability, her ‘hands-on’, collaborative and commercial approach, her leadership skills, user friendly approach and her extensive experience as an advocate. Clients and instructing solicitors commend her " excellent legal brain”, and as being “a great tactician” and "a very powerful advocate and a very strong team player."
Myriam is regularly, and repeatedly, instructed by developers and landowners in connection with property issues arising in relation to the development of land. She has acted as both Counsel for the developer and legal expert in high value and contentious expert determinations and other such disputes including in relation to difficult issue of contractual interpretation, the exercise of options, the right to overage, nuisance and trespass claims, easements, restrictive covenants, the satisfaction of conditions contracts including reasonable endeavours obligations, claims for repudiatory breach and issues of valuation.
She has extensive experience of acting for clients across a wide range of general real property disputes as well as commercial and residential landlord and tenant disputes, including under the 1954 Act and and disputes concerning rights and liabilities under leases, including breach of user clauses, repairing obligations and dilapidations claims, forfeiture, break clauses, claims under guarantees and service charge issues.
