Lesley Webber is a Consultant in Field Fisher Waterhouse’s
Property
Litigation Group. One of the UK's leading property litigation
lawyers, she was awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Jubilee honours
list and honorary membership of the RICS in 2007, both for services
to the property industry.
She is
described by Chambers UK as “a leading light in rent review cases"
and ha s successfully undertaken many of
the most challenging recent reviews, including 1 Victoria Street
(for DTI/BIS); Waterside (for D2 Private); 78 St James's Street
(for Deutsche Bank), Stratton Street/Berkeley Street (for Lazard);
Great Minster House (for DfT); 25 Berkeley Square (for Cadbury);
Niketown (for Nike); 9 Millbank (for Ofgem); New Broad Street House
(for Corporation of London); Brunel Buildings (for Isambard);
Lloyds Building (for Lloyds); Courtauld Galleries (for Somerset
House); Queensberry House (for Louis Dreyfus).
Other major work includes: the Shard of Glass, Swan House, Crown
Place.
Lesley was a member of the Property Advisory Group to the Office
of the Deputy Prime Minister (and its predecessors) from 1997 to
2003 and a member of the Government’s Sounding Board on the
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. She devised the PACT scheme for
resolving contested business tenancy renewals.
Reported cases include Flour Daniels v Shortlands
Investments; Morgan Sindall v Sawston Farms;
Zubaida v Hargreaves and PHIT v Holding and Management
Ltd
She is the Legal and Estates Portfolio Holder at Epping Forest
District Council; the Chair of Chigwell Parish Council and a season
ticket holder at Watford FC.