Thekla is a Partner in the Real Estate Litigation team in our London office.
A prominent real estate disputes lawyer with over 25 years’ experience, Thekla acts on all aspects of real estate disputes and also specializes in telecoms. She is recognized in the legal directories as a leading practitioner.
Thekla heads up the Telecoms Code Group and is one of the leading lawyers on Telecoms Code disputes acting for landowners. She has over 17 years’ experience working in telecoms. She acted in one of the few reported cases under the old code; was involved in the Law Commission’s and DCMS’ consultations on the new code and acted on the very first case before the Tribunal under the new code. Thekla regularly lectures on telecoms for the RICS and legal training bodies and has written a chapter on the code in the Business Premises: Possession and Lease Renewal. Thekla has acted in nearly all of the key cases under the new code; of the five cases identified by Judge Elizabeth Cooke as the key cases at the RICS Telecoms Forum in November 2019, Thekla has acted in four of them.
Thekla advises landowners on:
- access requests received from operators for multisite visits
- strategies for the removal or relocation of electronic communications apparatus
- pursuing operators for breach of agreements and/or damage caused to the landowner’s property
- strategies following the service of a code notice by an operator
- entering into code agreements
- upgrade requests received from operators
- renewals of agreements
Thekla regularly lectures on telecoms for the RICS and legal training bodies and has written a chapter on the Code in Business Premises: Possession and Lease Renewal.
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- podcasts and webcastsLegal Frequencies - Holiday Countdown 2023: What is on the Telecoms horizon for 2024?
- podcasts and webcastsLegal Frequencies - Holiday Countdown 2023 - What is the imposition process?
- podcasts and webcastsLegal Frequencies - a Telecoms Podcast: The lease and licence distinction in the context of agreements under the Electronic Communications Code
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Legal Frequencies - Holiday Countdown 2023: What is on the Telecoms horizon...
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December 14, 2023
Legal Frequencies - Holiday Countdown 2023 - What is the imposition process...
podcasts and webcasts
December 14, 2023
Legal Frequencies - a Telecoms Podcast: The lease and licence distinction i...
Thekla’s reported cases:
- CTIL v Praed Street: the very first case before the Tribunal under the Code
- CTIL v University of London [2018] UKUT 0356 (LC): the first substantive judgment under the Code and the first case on rights of access
- EE Ltd and Hutchison 3G UK Ltd v the Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Islington [2018] UKUT 0361 (LC): the first case under the Code on Interim Code Agreements
- EE Ltd and Hutchison 3G UK Ltd v the Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Islington [2019] UKUT 0053 (LC): the first case on a full Code Agreement, consideration and compensation
- EE and H3G v Trustees of the Meyrick Estate [2019] UKUT 164 (LC): the first case on a Landlord’s intention to redevelop
- The University of London v Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Limited [2019] EWCA Civ 2075: the appeal on the rights of access for operators to buildings for survey purposes and whether interim code applications are standalone applications
- CTIL v Ashloch Limited and AP Wireless (II) UK Limited [2019] EWCA Civ 2075: the first case on the jurisdiction for renewals of leases protected by the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954
- Holds dual qualification
- Qualified as a Solicitor in 1999
- Called to the Bar in 1992