CPD - Continuing Professional Development

Ant Wilson

Ant Wilson, Director, Building Engineering, AECOM
 
Ant gained a BSc(Hons) in Building (Environmental) Engineering from Bath University and went on to join Oscar Faber (now AECOM) in 1979. He leads the Sustainable Development Group promoting low energy/carbon building designs.

Ant has worked on a wide range of construction and research projects mainly from an energy performance perspective. He is a BSRIA and CIBSE Council member and on the editorial panel for BSER&T, CIBSE and Sustain magazines.

Ant has been very involved with thermal modelling and using computer simulation techniques to help with building services design.  Ant is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Energy Institute and the Society of Façade Engineering and a Member of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers and the Society of Lights and Lighting.

Ant is a CIBSE Low Carbon Consultant, received the AECOM 2007 Excellence Award for Thought Leadership, holds a Silver Medal from CIBSE for contributions to the Institution (2007) and was the first ever winner of the ACE engineering ambassadors award in 2008.

Barry Denyer- Green

Barrister, Falcon Chambers, Hon member of CAAV

Barry Denyer-Green is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, an Honorary member of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers and a Fellow of the College of Estate Management as well as a Member of CCPRAG, the compulsory purchase committee providing advice to DETR. He has provided advice and been a consultee to government departments including DEFRA, DETR and DEC & Local Government

He was editor of the Estates Gazette Law Reports Case Summaries 1986-2006 and Joint Editor of the Planning Law Reports 1988-2006. Barry Denyer-Green was also the author of Compulsory Purchase and Compensation (8th Edition) 2005; Development Law and Planning (3rd Edition) 1999 and Law of Commons and of Town and Village Greens (2006)

He is currently a barrister in practice at Falcon Chambers, Falcon Court, London EC4Y 1AA specializing in, amongst other things, compulsory purchase and compensation matters acting for claimants and acquiring authorities.

He lectures at CPD functions throughout the country for surveyors and lawyers.

Barry Gilbertson

Barry Gilbertson PPRICS FNARA MInstD CRE HonANEVAR HonSAIQS is Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers

Barry has been with PricewaterhouseCoopers since 1992, having previously been managing director of a property investment and development company.  Acknowledged as an expert in property insolvency, a leading fixed charge receiver, and specializing in strategic solutions for real estate within a business context.

Barry is a regular and entertaining speaker who has spoken at conferences in, and lead or worked on projects in 29 countries, as well as all four countries of the United Kingdom and also in Ireland.  Barry lectured at the 2002 World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, and chaired an international panel at the Global Cities Symposium at Harvard University.  Barry has spoken five times for the United Nations in Geneva.  Recently, one listener from an audience of 280 wrote in to observe "I must say your presentation was the best I have ever heard".

Barry has been monthly opinion columnist in Estates Gazette, is a respected commentator on business issues affecting the property industry and has been published more than 100 times, in UK and 14 other countries.  He is a regular commentator on the property markets on TV, radio, broadsheet press media and professional journals.

Barry was only the second UK real estate professional to be peer-elected to the Counselors of Real Estate, an internationally eminent group of only 1200 real estate practitioners worldwide, demonstrating "the highest levels of knowledge, experience, competency, integrity and judgement in the real estate arena."

1989 saw Barry as Chairman o fthe RICS Kent Branch.  In July 2001, RICS Governing Council passed a resolution recognizing Barry's "outstanding and visionary leadership".  As President 2004/05, Barry lead a profession of more than 113,000 members worldwide - RICS had, then, a turnover of c£32m (now £40m+) employing over 450 staff.  At the end of his Presidency, Barry received a formal citation of his "Innovative, clear and energetic leadership of the profession".

In 2002, Barry was instrumental in the creation of The World Association of Valuation Organisations, as the global voice for the valuation profession, in education and development of the profession, working with IVSC.

Since 2003, Barry has sat on The Bank of England Property Forum - a committee advising the Governor, to improve the Bank's understanding of financial developments in the UK's property markets.

Barry is a Visiting Professor of the The Built Environment at Northumbria University.  Barry's 2004 inaugural professorial lecture was Business Ethics, the 2005 lecture "Working Together", 2006 "Thesis ideas", 2007 "Property : Goldmine or Landmine" and 2008 "The Credit Crunch - has it taken the biscuit?"  Barry has been a Visiting Lecturer at 13 universities, including four of the world's top 12 - Cambridge, UK, Cornell, USA, in Beijing and in Shanghai China.

Barry's latest challenge at PwC is to bring his experience and expertise to work out the c$15bn (gross) real estate investment assets of, and corporate property occupied by, Lehman Borthers within the Administration.  Barry's team are also workign on Castlemore and Oakdene, respectively the largest commercial and residential property company casualties of this recession so far.

In his  everyday role at PwC, Barry advises strategically where real estate is material to an assignment, especially in "business workout" scenarios.  Barry is well known for his research on retail store closures within the current recessionary climate.  Recently, a client commented .. "Barry has such presence because of his clear and known expertise - he's not a professor for nothing".

David Powell

David Powell FRICS MAE FRGS MAE FRGS is Managing Director of David J Powell Surveys Ltd and a leading expert in Boundary and Rights-of-Way dispute resolution.  He is one of the prime movers in the RICS Neighbour Dispute Service and the author of "Anstey’s Boundary Disputes" (RICS Books). 

David has lectured on the subject of "Neighbours at War" throughout Europe and in the West Indies and has featured on BBC TV and radio.

Duncan Preston

Director of Valuation, Aston Rose

Elizabeth de Burgh Sidley

Elizabeth de Burgh Sidley BA(Hons) FRICS. Partner, Drivers Jonas

Elizabeth joined Drivers Jonas as a Graduate in 1976 and became a Partner in 1985.

She heads up the team at Drivers Jonas which deals with issues that affect neighbours when developments occur, acting for major developers primarily but also for affected adjoining owners.

Neighbourly issues include considering lighting levels in proposed residential accommodation under the British Standard, analysing daylighting and sunlighting levels and overshadowing relating to planning applications, advising on rights of light implications, acting as party wall surveyor under The Party Wall etc Act 1996 and dealing with other matters such as scaffolding and crane oversailing and means of escape.

Graham Chase

Managing Partner, Chase & Partners

Graham Chase is a Senior Partner of Chase and Partners, a Fellow Past President of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Panel Member) and a Freeman of the City of London.   On 31 September 2008 he was elected Chairman of the Association of Town Centre Management.

His first job in 1975 was in the BBC Estates and Planning Department.  In 1978 he moved to Ladbrokes Racing as Regional Estates Manager before starting work as a Shops Agent with Clive Lewis & Partners on 1 January 1980 where he stayed until shortly after the merger with Edward Erdman to form Colliers Erdman Lewis.

For the past 25 years he has specialised in the retail and leisure property market covering both the in-town and out-of-town sectors in occupational and investment agency, development consultancy, valuation and professional work including CPO compensation and town planning.  Chase & Partners have been trading since 1 June 1995 and have advised on the development, letting and funding of retail and leisure schemes throughout the UK. Recent schemes include town centre developments in Wrexham, Chesterfield, Kidderminster and Enfield and retail warehouse parks at Gateshead, Taunton, Peterborough and Poole.   Chase and Partners also act for over 40 local authorities on all aspects of planning work as well as providing planning consultancy to the private sector.

He is a Non Executive Director of the Assura Group which was listed on the London Stock Exchange in November 2003 and which invests in Primary Care Trust property.

As well as operating within the market place, Graham acts as an Expert Witness at Public Inquiries, the High Court, the Lands Tribunal and receives a number of appointments as an Independent Expert and Arbitrator on rent review, service charge and development profit share disputes in both the retail and leisure property sectors.  He is also the Consultant Editor of the Surveyors Handbook on "Business Tenancy Renewals".

Graham was President of th Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors from July 2006 to July 2007, is a Past President of the General Practice Division of the RICS and the immediate Past Chairman of the RICS Commercial Property Faculty. He was a member of the recently disbanded Property Advisory Group (PAG) of the OPDM and between July 2001 and January 2004 he was the RICS Representative to the Bank of England's Commercial Property Forum.

Graham is a past Governer of Mill Hill School, a Trustee of Alford House Youth Club in Lambeth, a Governer of the College of Estate Management and is a member of the Court of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors

Graham North

Graham North MRICS MCIArb is a Partner of Anstey Horne & Co.

Graham is a Professional Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Past Chairman of the Boundaries and Party Wall Practice Panel at the RICS.

He is Editor of "The Party Wall Surveyors' Manual", contributed to the latest edition of the RICS Guidance Note and has also updated John Anstey's book "Party Walls & What to do with Them" which has just been published by the RICS.

Graham is a member and the Treasurer of the Pyramus & Thisbe Club, both the London Branch and National Organisation, an organisation for property professionals with an interest in Party Walls matters and associated subjects.

He has just been awarded the Michael Barrett Memorial Award by the RICS for his outstanding contribution to surveying in respect of Party Wall and Boundary Issues. 

Jennifer Rickard

Jennifer Rickard LLB(Hons), Partner, Real Estate Dispute Resolution, Nabarro

Jennifer has been a partner in the Property Litigation Department of Nabarro Nathanson for 19 years. She is a litigator specialising in property related disputes, including all aspects of landlord and tenant (including rent reviews, dilapidations and opposed renewals), professional negligence, claims for rectification, vendor and purchaser and development disputes and property related insolvency. She represented one of the parties in CEDR's (Centre for Dispute Resolution) first Early Neutral Evaluation (ENE) (a form of dispute resolution).

Jennifer speaks regularly at external and client seminars and writes articles in property journals. She is a member of the Property Investment Forum.

Her reported cases include:
Checkpoint -v- Strathclyde Pension Fund
Lewisham Investment Partnership -v- Morgan
Straudley -v- Mount Eden Land Limited
Mannal -v- Eagle Star Life Assurance

Jeremy Till

Jeremy Till is an architect and educator.  He is Dean of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster, London, having moved to Westminster from the University of Sheffield where he was Head of Architecture.  His extensive written work includes 'Architecture and Participation', 'Flexible Housing' (with Tatjana Schneider), which was a winner of the 2007 RIBA President's Medal for Research, and most recently Architecture Depends (MIT Press), a book that has been widely reviewed and discussed.   As an architect, he worked with Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, best known for their pioneering building, 9 Stock Orchard Street.  In 2006 he was appointed to represent Britain at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

John Organ

John Organ FRICS is a Consultant at Cushman & Wakefield

John originally trained at the former LCC then moved into Receivership work at Edward Symons & Partners.  He then worked in the Industrial Team at Hillier Parker for 5 years before joining Healey and Baker (now Cushman & Wakefield) in 1973, just in time for a secondary banking crisis!  John ran their Industrial Agency and Business Space Teams for 20 years, set up the Retail Warehouse Team, then ran the Asset Management Team with 60 staff for 6 years.

He became external adviser to 5 Corporate organisations, so quickly learnt you need to speak the same language as the Financial Director if you want an ongoing relationship.  John has now finally achieved Consultant status for C&W and advises their network of 29 European offices on Best Practice.
 

Julie Gattegno

Julie Gattegno Solicitor, Partner Nabarro LLP

Julie advises, resolves disputes and litigates on a wide variety of contentious real estate issues. Julie's experience includes advising an various breaches of leasehold covenants, including dilapidations and service charges; dealing with applications for consent to assign/underiet; advising on rent reviews, and all other landlord and tenant problems. She also deals with contractual and development disputes, including specific performance claims, injunctions, rights of light, party wall disputes and redevelopment of business premises, Julie has also developed a special interest in property insolvency Issues.

Julie has appeared on Legal Network Television training videos, The Surveyors Channel and speaks at seminars, including Central Law Training, Hewksmere and The Continuing Professional DeVelopment Foundation. Julie also writes articles for the property press, Including the Estates Gazette and Property Law Journal

Keith Hutcheson

Keith Hutcheson MA (Cantab) Solicitor. Consultant, Nabarro and Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster

•    28 years experience as a solicitor acting for property investors, managers, developers

•    20 years in partnership at Nabarro, now a consultant

•    Frequent lecturer on all aspects of property law over the last 15 years

Kirk Reynolds

Kirk Reynolds QC HonRICS HonMemberArbix, Member, Falcon Chambers

Education: Peterhouse, Cambridge; MA (Cantab) (1972)

Professional
Called 1974, Middle Temple, Silk 1993

Honorary Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Honorary Member of Arbrix
Bencher of The Middle Temple
Speaks French, German and Italian

Publications
The Handbook of Rent Review (Looseleaf Edition, 1981 to date)
Renewal of Business Tenancies. Second Edition 2002. First Supplement 2005.
Dilapidations: The Modern Law and Practice (1995). Second edition January 2001. Third edition 2004.

Published Comment

When it comes to dilapidations Kirk Reynolds QC is "top-notch" according to clients. A lawyer who "impresses due to his extensive knowledge" he appeared in the Court of Appeal case Fairgate International Ltd V Citibank, which concerend the interrelationship between an obligation to repair and the landlord's right to the reinstatement of alterations". Chambers and Partners 2009

Listed as a Leading Silk. Legal 500 (2008).

"The skills of Kirk Reynolds QC are often called into action by solicitors in need of dilapidations counsel. "A true gentleman with a meticulous approach to his work", he remains a popular choice for those occasions "when a more gentle style is required". Chambers and Partners Guide 2008.

"Kirk Reynolds QC is seen as "charismatic" and "his style is gentle but his intent deadly". Legal 500 (2007)

"Kirk Reynolds QC has a strong work ethic, he prepares his cases with supreme diligence before presenting them in a "calm, cool and collected manner in court". Chambers and Partners Guide 2007.

"Kirk Reynold QC is "precise". Legal 500 (2006).

"Kirk Reynolds QC is "very authoritative and extremely impressive in conference". He is noted for his "superb cross-examination of witnesses". Chambers and Partners Guide 2006

"Kirk Reynolds QC has a "very commercial mindset" which informs his "crisp advice". Legal 500 (2005)

"Kirk Reynolds QC is a "skilful cross-examiner of professional witnesses," particularly of surveyors and engineering experts, and "puts clients immediately at ease in conference with his mastery of instructions and relaxed, gentlemanly style." Chambers and Partners Guide 2005

"Kirk Reynolds QC offers "Concise and commercial advice" Legal 500 2004

"Kirk Reynolds is praised by solicitors for being innovative, commercial and client-responsive". Chambers and Partners Guide 2003/2004.

"Kirk Reynolds also has a strong reputation". Legal 500 (2003).

"Another very experienced and popular silk is Kirk Reynolds QC". Legal 500 (2002).

"Kirk Reynolds is "creative, rational, calm" and popular with clients, who appreciate his sharp commercial brain". Chambers and Partners Guide 2002/2003.

Listed as a Leading Silk in Property Litigation. Legal 500 (2001)

"Kirk Reynolds delves deeply into the detail and is loved by his clients". Chambers and Partners Guide 2001/2002.

"Kirk Reynolds is also a strong litigator at silk level" Legal 500 (2000)

"Kirk Reynolds is recommended for dilapidations work and draws praise for his opinions". Chambers and Partners Guide 2000/2001

Louise Hosking

Louise Hosking MCIEH MIOSH is Managing Director of Hosking Associates Ltd

Louise works with a variety of clients as a freelance Safety Director to give direction to companies and enable them to manage safety effectively throughout their organisations.

She has previous experience of working as an enforcement officer before working with the co-op and then onto consultancy. From here Louise went on to work with Savills as Head of Environmental Health and Safety for nearly five years before leaving to set up her own Safety Consultancy.

Hosking Associates specialises in providing corporate safety solutions to those in the property sector.

Malcolm Hollis

Malcolm Hollis BSc(EstMan) FRICS MCIArb FBEng MAE, Building Pathologist and Surveyor

Malcolm Hollis has been a Chartered Surveyor for over 35 years.  He specialises in Defect Recognition, the Diagnosis of the Cause of Failure and the interpretation of Liability for such matters as Dilapidations, Service Charges and Risk Analysis. 
 
He was appointed Professor by the University of Reading in 1988 and has written books on both Surveying Buildings and Dilapidations.  The fifth edition of 'Surveying Buildings’, was published in 2005 and the second edition of 'Pocket Surveying Buildings' was published in 2006. He is the managing editor of the Journal of Building Appraisal.

Martin Thomas

Martin Thomas BA(Oxon) Solicitor is partner of Dundas & Wilson

Michael Lister

Michael Lister BSc MRICS, Partner Principal Michael Lister Private Equity and Senior Partner Strategic Development Clydesdale Bank

Michael graduated in Microbiology from London University and joined Hillier Parker where he qualified as a Chartered Surveyor.

Michael joined New York bank Manufacturers Hanover Trust as their in house surveyor, valuing and risk assessing the properties on which the bank lent - it did not take external valuations. Michael originated business for the bank and ran a Ioanbook. In the 1980s MHT became one of the largest lenders to the UK property sector, becoming involved in a variety of deal structures including the leading of syndication and deep discount bond issuance. Michael was closely involved with financial engineering for non-property transactions and with corporate acquisition finance.

In 1994 Michael joined Bank of Ireland as Head of Property and Construction. This involved leading a property lending team in the UK head office and leading the origination of UK property loans throughout the whole bank. Michael advised the bank on property matters and served on the UK management board. In the 12 years of Michael's tenure, Bank of Ireland became a major player in lending to the UK property sector.

In 2005 Michael reduced his lending time to two days a week, allowing him to establish Michael Lister Private Equity which invests in a variety of early-stage corporates. Michael plays an active part in the management of several of these companies. Sectors currently include internet-by-mobile-phone, engineering, telephone systems, surveillance, travel and a next-generation property information system.

In 2006 Michael became a Senior Partner at Clydesdale Bank, again for 2 days per week, to originate property transactions and provide property expertise to the property lending team. Michael additionally runs property training for Clydesdale Bank.

Michael is a former president of the Association of Property Bankers and a former member of both the Bank of England Property Forum and the Department of the Environment Property Forum.

Michael lectures widely on property and finance.

Norman Train

Norman Train BSc C.Eng FIStructE FICE FCIArb FConsE is Principal of Train and Kemp

Norman Train has over 35 years experience in the construction industry having worked for contractors, local authorities and consultants. He is Vice President of the Institution of Structural Engineers, and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.  He is also a Member of The Worshipful Company of Engineers.
 
As a graduate, he received experience in site investigations and on major road and drainage schemes with a County Council. He joined Baynham Meikle in 1982, becoming the London Partner in 1987, prior to the formation of Train and Kemp in 1992. 
 
His principal structural interests are in foundations, refurbishment and masonry and timber construction.  He has used his geo-environmental experience in investigating a number of foundation and road failures and heads up the environmental work undertaken by the firm.  He was awarded the Institution of Structural Engineers Sir Arnold Waters Medal for his paper on Contaminated Land in 2004.
 
He has appeared as an Expert Witness and won the Presidents Prize for the highest mark in the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Award Exam in 1995.

Vivien King

Director, Hatherleigh Training

Vivien established Hatherleigh Training in 2007.

She lectures, teaches and conducts workshops specialising in property and property litigation issues.  Vivien is a solicitor and was in partnership for many years in the City of London "retiring" to join Bond Pearce as a consultant in 2003. She continues to handle some high value cases from their Plymouth office. She is also a consultant to the College of Law and a visiting lecturer at the College of Estate Management.

Vivien was awarded honorary membership of the RICS in 2003, is a member of the RICS dilapidations working party, of its dilapidations forum and of the management board of the RICS Inclusive Environment Consultants' Scheme.

She is a PACT arbitrator, a member of Arbix, of the Property Litigation Associaion and its Reform Committee and a member of the Centre of Accessible Environments.