Meet Jane Canham
Job Title
Consultant Solicitor
Department
Residential Property
Jane is a property litigation solicitor based in London who specialises solely in residential property; since qualifying in 2004 she has worked for both individual lessees and corporate landlords and asset managers including the largest private residential landlord in the UK.
Jane advises on service charge issues, often advising managing agents and landlords in relation to the content of consultation notices and service charge obligations generally. She regularly gives talks to managing agents about this and other related topics. Jane also advises landlords in relation to Rent Act tenancies, Assured and Assured Shorthold Tenancies, usually in relation to the recovery of possession.
During the last 13 years Jane has gained significant experience in the First Tier Tribunal.
On the enfranchisement side of her practice Jane mostly acts for individual lessees seeking to extend their leases or to purchase the freehold of their house as well as groups wishing to purchase the freehold of their block of flats or take over the Right to Manage. She has particular expertise in the Rights of First Refusal and mostly advises lessees in that regard. She has recently worked on a project comprising over 250 units.
