Cerys specialises in Civil Litigation and Family Finance.
Her Civil Litigation practice covers traditional Chancery work, including Trusts, Probate and Land disputes, and Commercial disputes featuring Landlord and Tenant and Insolvency. She has extensive experience in housing matters, having appeared in courts up to and including the Court of Appeal, and routinely advises parties upon both Welsh and English housing law.
Additionally, Cerys has substantial Public Law and Inquiry experience, regularly acting on behalf of local authorities and Government.
She is ranked as a Tier 1 Leading Junior in Social Housing in the 2023 edition of the Legal 500, and is also listed as Band 2 in Social Housing in the UK Bar 2024 edition of Chambers and Partners.
“Cerys Walters is very knowledgeable and well regarded.”
(Chambers UK Guide)
Her Family Finance practice comprises divorce, financial remedy and ToLATA / cohabitation matters.
Cerys has been appointed to the A Panel of the Welsh Government Panel of Approved Counsel. Her appointment runs for five years from 1st March 2021. In 2019, she was appointed to the Equality and Human Rights Commission Panel of Approved Counsel.
She accepts instructions in public access matters in appropriate cases relating to civil litigation only.
Cerys accepts instructions in the following areas:
- Commercial & Residential Property
- Contractual Disputes
- Commercial Disputes
- Housing, Homelessness and Anti-Social Behaviour, including claims involving issues under the Equality Act and the ECHR
- Inquests & Inquiries
- Insolvency
- Judicial Review & Local Government
- Land Disputes
- Landlord & Tenant
- Trusts & Probate
She currently acts for the Welsh Government in their role as Core Participants to the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry, having been engaged in advising upon Modules 2B and 3, and is currently working on Modules 4 and 7.
Additionally, Cerys is particularly experienced in Housing matters. In 2016, she appeared in the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal on behalf of the Appellant tenant in the case of Lee (Flowers) v. Cardiff County Council, in a case which considered the interpretation and scope of changes to Part 83 of the Civil Procedure Rules relating to the issuing of warrants of possession that were brought in to force in April 2014.
She was also engaged in substantively advising the Welsh Government both prior to and after the implementation of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016, and continues to regularly advise local authorities, charities, social and commercial landlords and private individuals on the impact of the Act.
Cerys’ family practice focuses on financial remedy and Schedule 1 applications.
She also has a particular interest in ‘cohabitation’ matters under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996. Her dual family and civil practice mean that she is well placed to advise upon the procedural rules in both areas and in those cases where there are linked Lands Tribunal proceedings.
Chambers UK Guide
“Cerys Walters is very knowledgeable and well regarded.”
(2023 – Social Housing, Wales & Chester Circuit. Band 2)
Legal 500
She is recommended by The Legal 500 2018 (Tier 1) for her Property work particularly “building disputes and adverse possession matters” whilst the previous edition recommended her as being “very experienced in housing matters.“
Education and Awards
- Cardiff University, LLB Law, 1st Class (Hons), (2008)
- Cardiff University, Bar Vocational Course, Outstanding (2009)
- 2007: Cardiff University, Mooting Competition Winner (as judged by His Honour Judge Nicholas Cooke QC)
- 2008: Lincoln’s Inn, Lord Denning Scholarship
- 2009: Lincoln’s Inn, Buchanan Prize for Outstanding PerformanceLincoln’s Inn, Highest Ranking Student Member Called to the Bar on 28 July 2009
- Wales and Chester Circuit Award for Outstanding Student of the Year
- 2009: Temple Chambers Award for Best Performance in Civil Advocacy
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