Felicia specialises in real estate litigation and advises on all aspects of residential and commercial property disputes.
In respect of commercial landlord and tenant disputes, Felicia has experience in acting on lease renewals, contested alterations and alienation, dilapidations claims, breaches of lease, forfeiture, and break options, as well as advising and acting on site clearance and vacant possession strategies.
Felicia advises residential landlords and tenants on a variety of matters including service charge disputes, disrepair and fitness for habitation, major works, possession claims, rights of first refusal (pre-emption rights) and contentious aspects of enfranchisement matters.
Her experience also extends to urgent evictions of trespassers, development-related matters such as boundary disputes, the Building Safety Act 2022, building defects claims, party wall disputes, rights of light, restrictive covenants, contested easements and wayleaves, adverse possession, prescriptive easements, the Electronic Communications Code, utility services relocation, and rectification of registered titles.
Felicia speaks Swedish and Persian.
Expertise
- Adverse possession
- Alterations
- Boundary disputes
- Break options
- Building defects claims
- Building Safety Act 2022
- Dilapidations claims and disputes
- Disrepair and fitness for habitation
- Easements
- Electronic Communications Code
- Enforcement of lease terms
- Forfeiture
- Landlord and tenant
- Lease renewals
- Party Wall etc. Act 1996 disputes
- Possession claims including claims against trespassers
- Right of first refusal under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987
- Rights of light
- Service charge disputes
- Utility services relocation
- Enfranchisement (contentious)
Experience
- Assisted in the matter of Messenex Property Limited v Lanark Square Limited [2024] EWHC 89 (Ch), acting for the successful landlord in defending a claim brought by the tenant seeking a declaration that consent to alterations to a mixed-use building had been unreasonably refused.
- Acted for the successful landlord in a service charge dispute in which the tenant issued an application concerning the reasonableness of service charges relating to major works costs and argued that the landlord should only be permitted to recover the statutory cap of £250 in respect of the works.
- Acted in a highly contentious neighbour matter concerning the interpretation and application of an express right of way and a dispute relating to the boundary between the relevant properties.
- Acted for various landlords and tenants in opposed and unopposed commercial lease renewals and dilapidations disputes as well as site clearance projects.
- Advised various landlords and tenants in relation to rights and obligations in respect of the right of first refusal under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987.
- Advised a landlord in respect of service charge recoverability with reference to the Building Safety Act 2022.
Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.
Career
Felicia qualified as a solicitor in 2022. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2024, she worked at the following firms:
- Howard Kennedy LLP
- Edwin Coe LLP
- Child & Child