Angelica Botta is a Junior Associate in the Litigation Department, with a busy civil litigation practice.
She manages her own caseload of a high number of disrepair cases under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, acting for many different local authorities throughout the country, including reviewing and preparation of documents often under very tight timescales.
Angelica has experience of alternative dispute resolution, having negotiated the settlement of many disputes with favourable outcome for the client more often than not.
She also has advocacy experience having represented several clients in court.
Housing disrepair: Acting on current and recent instructions on a number of complex housing disrepair cases across England for numerous local authorities.
Housing possession: Assisting the team with complex housing possession cases in London often including a disrepair counterclaim.
Pubs Code Adjudicator: Providing assistance to the Pubs Code Adjudicator with the publication of arbitration decisions once they have been made.
Angelica is extremely methodical and thorough in her approach to each case. She provides clear and practical advice to clients to enable disputes to be resolved as efficiently and as quickly as possible.
I was awarded the best first year student award at Anglia Ruskin University where I graduated with a 1st class degree in LLB (Hons) Law.
3 March 2025
Sharpe Pritchard recently acted for a Local Authority landlord in a case where they successfully ‘set off’ the tenant’s outstanding rent arrears against the tenant’s legal costs following settlement of a disrepair claim at Pre-Action Protocol stage. Case background The tenant (T) brought a disrepair claim against the London Borough of Newham (LBN) which was…
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