Home office: Southampton
Pronouns: She/her
Lauren acts for social landlords in a wide range of landlord and tenant litigation, and provides advice on all aspects of housing management.
Lauren is a Chartered Legal Executive in the Housing Management team based in Southampton. Lauren qualified in 2020, after previously joining the team as a paralegal in 2016.
Lauren prides herself on being approachable and personable to clients, and is passionate about ensuring that clients are well equipped to achieve their desired outcome by providing practical advice in a concise and accessible manner.
How Lauren can help you
Lauren deals with all housing management related matters, including progressing injunction applications for anti-social behaviour, applications for committal, and a wide range of possession claims, including anti-social behaviour, unlawful occupiers, failed succession, breach of tenancy and sub-letting. Lauren also regularly defends housing conditions claims.
Experience
- Represented a Registered Provided in a £1.1million claim for unlawful eviction which was successfully dismissed following a hotly contested 9-day trial at the High Court (Eviction Fiction! Michelle Caney Successful in £1.1M Unlawful Eviction Case – St. Philips Chambers)
- During lengthy contempt of court proceedings, following a Defendant being arrested at least 8 times for breaching the Injunction Order, proposed a settlement whereby the client would not seek a custodial sentence if the Defendant terminated her tenancy agreement. The offer was accepted and saved the client the time and costs of seeking a possession order, which at the time was not possible as possession proceedings were stayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
- Obtained a Global Substitution Order in the High Court for a Registered Provider of Social Housing who had changed their name, and had 315 rent cases issued in the County Court in the former name which were required to be changed prior to any further orders being made.
Recommendations
‘Lauren Hampton is brilliant to work with. She is very conscientious, and her housing law knowledge is second to none. She is an asset to their team.’
Legal 500 2025 (where Lauren is rated as a Leading Associate)
Articles by Lauren
Housing Law Update – The Court of Appeal provide guidance on the penalties for breaching an Anti-Social Behaviour Injunction
In July 2020, the Civil Justice Council produced a report which highlighted several inconsistencies in the way the County Courts dealt with sentencing for breach of injunctions made under the Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act 2014.
Read more on Housing Law Update – The Court of Appeal provide guidance on the penalties for breaching an Anti-Social Behaviour Injunction