Rewriting Renting: Navigating the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 - Landmark Chambers

Join us for our one-day conference dedicated to the Renters’ Rights Act 2025.

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 represents the most significant reform of residential landlord and tenant law for almost 40 years and will radically change both the residential letting market and the legal framework.

Landmark Chambers’ barristers have played a leading role throughout the development of this legislation, including giving evidence to Parliament and advising the Government. With commencement now announced for 1 May 2026, our members are already advising landlords, tenants, and local authorities on the implications of the reforms.

This conference will provide practical insight into the new legal landscape and guidance for navigating the transition.

Programme

• Welcome and introduction – Justin Bates KC
• In conversation with Vicky Spratt – Vicky Spratt, Housing & Society Correspondent, The i Paper
• How did we get here? From reform to rights – Justin Bates KC
• Security of tenure and grounds for possession: the new landscape – Brooke Lyne and Sophie Gibson
• Rent increases: how will it work? – Christopher Jacobs and Mattie Green
• Professionalising the private rented sector – Peter Sibley and Katherine Traynor
• It's all about the money: Rent repayment orders and deposits – Tom Morris
• The old to the new: transition and court capacity – Richard Clarke and Poppy Kemp
• Closing remarks – Justin Bates KC