Robert Lamb

Date of Call 1973

 

RANGE OF EXPERIENCE

Robert has 35 years' experience in a wide range of civil litigation and advisory work, specialising predominantly in property and chancery matters, professional negligence and business law. 

QUALIFICATIONS

1972:  MA (Cantab) Science

1973:  Bar Examinations, Inns of Court Law School

CARRER PATH

He graduated from Cambridge in 1972 and was called to the Bar in 1973.  He completed his pupillage at in 1974.

He joined the chambers of Julian Baughan QC at 13 King’s Bench Walk as a tenant in 1974.

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE EXPERIENCE

• All aspects of real property law with special emphasis on the law relating to mortgages, conveyancing, easements and proprietary estoppel.
• Almost all aspects of commercial and residential landlord and tenant work, including leasehold enfranchisement.
• A wide variety of commercial and contractual disputes,  including those affecting companies, partnerships, banking franchise agreements
• Professional negligence work involving solicitors, architects, surveyors and accountants, particularly where there is a real property connection.
• All forms of general Chancery work: thus the obtaining of chancery remedies such as injunctions, rectification, rescission, accounts etc.

LEADING CASES

Examples of reported cases in the appellate courts (where Robert has presented the case) include:

House of Lords:  Smith v Braintree District Council [1990] 2 AC 215 (rating and insolvency).

Court of Appeal: J H Edwards v Central London Commercial Estates [1984] 271 EG 697 (business tenancy – intention to redevelop); Naz v Raja [1987] The Times 11 April (notice to complete);  Proctor v Kidman [1985] 51 P&CR 67 (construction of parcels).Habermann v Koehler (1999 and 2000) (proprietary estoppel)

Robert spent almost an entire year (1996-7) working with Roger Ellis QC on the huge case of Faryab v Smyth which lasted 81 days in Court and where there was £25 million at stake.  The case concerned an alleged partnership and involved a wide variety of property and banking matters.   Robert’s client was successful before Blackburne J and on appeal (1999) and in relation to all further attempts (2000-1) to upset the decision. Robert also worked on the related action Smyth v Behbehani, {1998-2000) also involving banking matters, in which the client was successful both at first instance and on appeal.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

Robert is a keen violinist, and holds the ARCM and LRAM diplomas He plays regularly in a string quartet that gives regular public performances