30: Brick By Brick: Building your knowledge on Property Law with Brooke Lyne

In this episode, guest speaker Brooke Lyne speaks to Saima about breaking into the world of law from a non-traditional background, and her journey finding her specialism in property litigation. Brooke offers her thoughts on the future of property law, discussing key issues such as the balance of power between landlords and tenants, the challenges posed by cuts to legal aid, and the potential of housing reforms to improve the justice system. Hearing from people from similar backgrounds can be one of the ways to push yourself in the right direction. It can be comforting to remind ourselves that such inspirational people also once or still may feel the same nerves or confusion at times as we do. They too undertook the daunting experience of university, so their advice is priceless!Brooke Lyne is a junior barrister at Landmark Chambers, who was called to the bar in 2016. A first-generation university student, she read English at Cambridge. She specialises in all areas of property work including residential and commercial landlord and tenant cases, and real property disputes.In 2023 Brooke appeared (being led) for the successful landlord in the Supreme Court in Aviva Investors Ground Rent GP Limited v Williams & ors [2023] UKSC 6; a case concerning the scope of the tribunal’s jurisdiction in leasehold service charge disputes.