Natalie Ashkar

Call 2009
Email natalie.ashkar@3pb.co.uk
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Property & Chancery

Natalie practices in all areas of the Property and Chancery group’s remit, and her practice encompasses most types of property work including residential and commercial tenancies, Mortgages, Restrictive Covenants, Trusts of Land, Easements and Nuisance.

Prior to coming to the bar, Natalie worked for a number of years in a property law firm as a senior legal assistant in the residential conveyancing department. She was responsible, amongst other things, for checking title deeds (leasehold and freehold), mortgages, drafting deeds, and advising clients and mortgagees.

With reference to her residential Landlord and Tenant practice, Natalie has the following experience:

• Possession hearings/forfeiture:
  Natalie is frequently instructed by housing associations, private landlords and tenants to attend initial and final possession hearings.
• Rent arrears:
  Natalie is frequently instructed to recover rent arrears, and often alongside possession proceedings.
• Disrepair/dilapidation:
  Natalie has been instructed to recover damages for landlords from tenants for leaving property in a state of disrepair. Natalie also accepts instructions from tenants claiming against landlords for disrepair/dilapidation.
• Succession to tenancies:
  Natalie is able to advise upon succession rights to statutory tenancies and was recently instructed to provide such advice in a complicated case concerning succession to an assured tenancy, which also involved considering the application of the Human Rights Act to social landlords and the recent case-law concerning Article 8.
• ASBIs:
  Natalie has been instructed in a number of cases involving ASBIs, including defending two elderly tenants in a 6 day trial. This trial also involved cross-examining 8 witnesses, including cross-examining 2 housing officers. Natalie is also experienced in advising clients in conference, negotiating with opponents in such cases and drafting acceptable undertakings in order to resolve proceedings without the need for trial.