Iris Ferber

Called: 2005       Areas of Law: Housing, Employment, Chancery

Memberships

Northern Circuit
Chancery Bar Association
Northern Chancery Bar Association
Employment Lawyers Association
Discrimination Law Association
JUSTICE

Appointments

In 2010, Iris Ferber was appointed Junior Counsel to the Crown, specialising in employment litigation.

Practice

Iris has a general commercial and chancery practice, with a focus on employment law.

Employment

Iris undertakes the full range of Employment Tribunal work.  She regularly acts for both employees and employers, from public sector employers and national companies with tens of thousands of employees, to small businesses and individuals.
Iris’s practice includes both litigation and advisory work in the following fields:
  • Unfair dismissal (including constructive dismissal)
  • Redundancy
  • Equality Act discrimination
  • Pre-Equality Act discrimination
  • Whistleblowing
  • Wages claims and breach of contract claims
  • Restrictive covenant proceedings
  • TUPE



Her notable employment cases include:


Defeating the 7-day unfair dismissal and race discrimination claim of a litigant in person, on behalf of a large respondent; earning praise from the Tribunal for her patience with the claimant and for her thorough preparation of the case

Succeeding in a 5-day constructive unfair dismissal claim on behalf of the claimant.

Obtaining a finding that a claimant client was disabled, after a full day’s Pre-Hearing Review including cross-examination of the respondent’s medical expert.


Commercial / Chancery

Iris’s commercial work includes contractual disputes, mortgage and other debt disputes, and personal and corporate insolvency.  Iris also regularly deals with professional negligence disputes, particularly the negligence of accountants, surveyors and solicitors.
Iris’s chancery work includes both contentious probate and property-related disputes of all kinds.  She specialises in housing law, representing local authorities, housing associations, private landlords, and private and public sector tenants.  Her work encompasses all aspects of the landlord and tenant relationship, but particularly anti-social behaviour injunctions and possession proceedings.



Her notable chancery cases include:

Link Lending v Bustard [2010] EWCA Civ 242: Successfully resisting the claimant’s appeal in a mortgage fraud claim.  This important decision on the meaning of “actual occupation” under Schedule 3 of the Land Registration Act 2002 has been reported in the Estates Gazette, the Solicitor’s Journal Law Brief, and the Property, Planning & Compensation Reports.  Read the Court of Appeal’s judgment here:

link_lending_v_bustard.pdf

Acting for the defendants in a long-running complex High Court TCC claim for over half a million pounds: obtaining a security for costs order against the claimant, and an order striking out parts of the claim

Securing the winding up of a company as a petitioning creditor before HHJ Hodge QC sitting at the High Court in Manchester, where the company was alleging a disputed debt

Securing the striking out of the defendant’s defence and counterclaim in a high-value contractual dispute one week before trial, due to the defendant’s failure to file witness statements, and then successfully resisting the defendant’s appeal against the strike-out

 

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