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Mark Sefton KC

Mark Sefton KC
Called 1996
Silk 2018

Mark Sefton KC’s practice as a barrister covers all aspects of landlord and tenant and property litigation. Over his career, he has conducted a great many valuation and other arbitrations, including, in recent years, a series of multi-billion pound rent review arbitrations concerned with the largest residential property portfolio in England and Wales.

The Legal 500 has said that “his grasp of property valuations and their methodology is second to none”.

He has lectured in the past to both Arbrix and Index, and has often been instructed as a legal assessor.

  • Education

    • Trinity College, Cambridge: MA in English (1994)
    • City University: Diploma in Law
    • Inns of Court School of Law: Bar Vocational Course

  • Professional

    • Called, 1996 by Middle Temple
    • Diplock Scholarship
    • Winning Pair, Middle Temple Mooting Competition 1996
    • Real Estate Junior of the Year, Chambers and Partners Bar Awards 2012
    • Silk - 2018

  • Publications

    • Mark lectures and writes regularly.
    • Delivered a Blundell Memorial Lecture in 2014
    • Conducted workshops for the Chancery Bar Association and the Property Litigation Association; and has been invited to speak at both the Arbrix and Index conferences.
    • Published articles on a variety of topics (including on the Ramsay principle of statutory construction; shared ownership leases; the Pointe Gourde valuation principle; deferment rates; insolvency; and rent apportionment).
    • Used to be a contributor to Fisher & Lightwood’s Law of Mortgage, and was a joint author of Commonhold (OUP, 2004).
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