Lesley Curtis

Lesley Curtis is a partner dealing with all aspects of housing and related social welfare law. She qualified as a solicitor in 1989 and has for the last 15 years specialised in housing and public law. Lesley has a particular interest in disrepair and asthma related claims for children.

Lesley with her colleagues acts frequently as a duty solicitor on the county court possession schemes.

Lesley also acts as a consultant Peer Reviewer for the Legal Services Commission and assesses the quality of other housing practitioners.

She is developing the commercial departments and also represents landlords in connection with both commercial and residential property. In addition Lesley is part of the management team at Hopkin Murray Beskine. She is also involved in the innovative online diary referral system called Nellbooker. Hopkin Murray Beskine have been shortlisted for the Law Society Excellence Award 2008.

She is a graduate of Middlesex University and trained as a solicitor at Lawrence & Co. For several years she worked as a solicitor within the Tower Hamlets area for McMillen Hamilton McCarthy.

Significant cases in which she has represented:

Rogan v Woodfield Building Services [1995] 20 EG 132, CA

R v Tower Hamlets LBC ex parte Begum (CA)

R v Tower Hamlets LBC ex parte Uddin (2000) 32 HLR 391, QBD

R v LB Tower Hamlets ex parte Von Goetz (1999) 31 HLR 669, CA

R v Haringey LBC ex p PB (High Court)

Levi v Levi 2008 (Chancery Division)