Nicholas Sykes LLB (Lond)

Nicholas Sykes graduated from King’s College London and completed pupillage at East Anglian Chambers. Today he is instructed in both advisory and advocacy roles across all areas of his practice. He was a Hardwicke Scholar (2003) and Wolfson Scholar (2005).

 

As the beneficiary of a Pegasus Scholarship Nicholas is currently experiencing legal practice in Singapore and is therefore unavailable for local work. 

 

Planning, environment and local government

Nicholas specialises in all aspects of licensing law. He regularly advises and represents corporate clients and individual applicants, residents, the police and local authorities in cases concerning liquor, public entertainment, late night refreshment and taxi-licensing.

He regularly appears at first instance before licensing committees and on appeal in Magistrates’ courts across East Anglia, the Home Counties and the South East. His appellant work includes appearing on behalf of and against licensing authorities.

Nicholas has broad experience of environmental and local government law (including housing law matters).  Nicholas appears on behalf of local authorities on planning enforcement matters including breach of condition notices, enforcement notices and injunctive proceedings in the civil courts. He specialises in caravan site licences and the enforcement thereof, trading standards matters and nuisance (including statutory nuisance and abatement notice appeals and prosecutions).

Contract and commercial

Nicholas is regularly instructed in all manner of contractual disputes, matters of negligence (including professional negligence) and nuisance. He appears in both the county and High Court and is available for emergency applications. His work spans both Fast and Multi tracks, acting for corporate and private clients in cases of value up to £1,500,000.

Nicholas’ high court practice has seen him instructed in forfeiture proceedings, freezing injunctions and matters of a general commercial nature.

Land

Nicholas is instructed in matters of landlord and tenant on a regular basis, accepting instructions for either party. His practice extends from advising on the formalities of determining a tenancy/license and pre-issue considerations through to advocacy in court. He appears for and against housing authorities in possession proceedings and anti-social behaviour injunctions.

Nicholas also appears before the Adjudicator to HM Land Registry and the Lands Tribunal and acts for clients in claims concerning adverse possession and restrictive covenants.

He also specialises in business tenancies disputes, both litigious and non-litigious.

Personal injury

Nicholas accepts instructions in all aspects of personal injury work. He specialises in fatal accident claims, injury at work and on the highways. He advises on an almost daily basis and accepts instructions on a CFA basis.
 

Employment

Nicholas’ practice involves all aspects of employment law, including discrimination.

Seminars

Nicholas provides seminars to private clients and local authorities. Please contact his clerks for further details.