Katrina Robinson MBE
Partner
Experience
Katrina is a Partner at Capsticks and specialises in advising on a range of housing management matters including tenancy fraud, anti-social behaviour, disrepair and access.
She is the Chair of the Tenancy Fraud Forum, the Chair of the Law Society’s LGBT+ Committee, the founder of the Disrepair Focus Group and was previously the Independent Adjudicator for Grenfell.
In 2016 she was honoured with an MBE for Services to Social Housing.
Expertise
Katrina has substantial experience of working with housing associations and local authorities and regularly obtains possession orders and Unlawful Profit Orders in complex fraud and ASB cases as well as achieving fantastic outcomes in disrepair cases.
She also prepares tenancy agreements with clauses that have been reported in the national press and prepares policies and procedures for social landlords as well as working on large tenancy variation projects.
She has been described by clients as ‘one of the sector’s leading tenancy lawyers’ with a ‘frank yet warm approach’ and a ‘truly effective innovator’.
Legal awards
- Law Society Excellence Award for Best In-House Team in 2017
Admitted as a Solicitor
1997
Qualifications
- LLB(Hons) Southbank University
- LPC College of Law
Memberships
- Civil Litigation Section of the Law Society
- Tenancy Fraud Forum
- Disrepair Focus Group
- Women Lawyer’s Division
- Disabled Lawyer’s Division
- LGBT+ Lawyer’s Division
- Social Housing Law Association: committee member
