Kavish is a property litigation specialist with experience of alternative dispute resolution procedures. Kavish’s experience includes taking part in the prestigious Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, acting as an arbitrator in the Budapest pre-moot, mediating as part of a competition run by the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators, and writing an advice for an Independent Expert appointed by parties to determine a new rent.
In 2021, together with Guy Fetherstonhaugh QC, Kavish wrote in the Estates Gazette about the (then proposed) mandatory arbitration model for resolving commercial rent arrears accrued during the pandemic.
Kavish’s practice more generally covers all areas of real property and landlord and tenant law, both residential and commercial.
Kavish’s recent cases have covered the following areas:
- Landlord and tenant disputes including rent arrears, break clauses, forfeiture and other possession actions, and the 1954 Act
- The Community Infrastructure Levy
- Restrictive covenants
- Easements, including lost modern grant against the Crown
- Trespass
- Mortgages
- Council tax
- Financial penalties under Section 249A of the Housing Act 2004
- Tenants’ right of first refusal
- Reconsideration of final judgments
- Derek Wood KC
- Professor the Hon Clyde Croft AM SC
- Jonathan Gaunt KC
- Kirk Reynolds KC
- Guy Fetherstonhaugh KC
- Jonathan Karas KC
- Stephen Jourdan KC
- Janet Bignell KC
- Caroline Shea KC
- Mark Sefton KC
- Stephanie Tozer KC
- Gary Cowen KC
- Adam Rosenthal KC
- Catherine Taskis KC
- Oliver Radley-Gardner KC
- Barry Denyer-Green
- Martin Dray
- Anthony Tanney
- Emily Windsor
- Edward Peters
- Elizabeth Fitzgerald
- Greville Healey
- Nathaniel Duckworth
- Joseph Ollech
- Cecily Crampin
- Toby Boncey
- Michael Ranson
- Kavish Shah