Ben joined BTTJ in March 2024 as a Solicitor within our busy Residential Conveyancing team, based out of our Coventry office.
Ben qualified as a Solicitor in 2015 having completed his Training Contract with a Legal 500 firm in the West Midlands.
He has worked for a range of firms across the Midlands and specialises in all aspects of residential property with clients returning to him for his calm and efficient approach.
Ben is also deputy chair of the Birmingham Law Society’s Property & Development Committee.
In September 2024, after years of hard work, Ben was appointed as a Notary Public and a member of The Notaries Society. Ben’s position as a Notary Public provides services to both businesses and individuals.
Ben spends 80% of his time on residential property matters and deals with all types of residential property matters, he spends the remaining 20% of his time on Notary matters.
The Notaries Society
After much anticipation and speculation, the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 finally received Royal Assent on the 27th October 2025. The Government has since confirmed that the first phase of the measures of the Act will come into force on the 1st May 2026. So what are the key measures of the Act? Existing assured tenancies (fixed term and periodic) will convert to periodic assured tenancies....
A consultation paper was recently published by The Law Commission on reform of chancel repair liability (CRL). Residential Conveyancing Solicitor Ben James discusses the proposed changes below.... Dating back to feudal times, more particularly the reign of King Henry VIII, chancel repair liability concerns the cost of maintaining church chancels – the eastern end of the church, where the...
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