Dan Kolinsky KC

Barrister, Landmark Chambers

Dan Kolinsky KC was called to the Bar in 1998 and appointed King’s Counsel in 2015. He combines a specialist rating practice with a wider public law, local government and planning practice. He sits as a Deputy High Court Judge and as a Recorder. He is a CEDR accredited mediator. Dan was made an honorary member of the Rating Surveyor’s Association in 2017. He has recorded a series of rating podcasts (links on his profile page on Landmark’s website).      

Key rating cases include:

  • Cardtronics UK ltd v Sykes (VO) [2020] UKSC 21 representing Cardtronics in ATM test case (from VTE to the Supreme Court).
  • Iceland Foods Limited v Berry (V0) [2018] 1 WLR 1277-  represented Iceland throughout these proceedings including as advocate in its successful appeal to the Supreme Court
  • Nuffield Health v LB Merton [2021] EWCA Civ 1637 – represented Nuffield Health in mandatory charitable relief case in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court (heard March 2023) 
  • Monk v Newbigin (VO) [2017] 1 W.L.R. 851 – represented RSA and BPF in their successful intervention in the Supreme Court. Acted for Canary Wharf Ltd in 2019 post Monk case in the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber).
  • Woolway (Valuation Officer) v Mazars [2015] 3 W.L.R. 386 (Supreme Court) – acted for VO (with Tim Morshead QC) in leading case on identification of the hereditament
  • UKI (Kingsway) Ltd v Westminster City Council [2019] 1 W.L.R. 104 – acted for ratepayer at all stages of this litigation including as advocate in the Supreme Court in leading case on service of completion notices.
  • GPS (Great Britain) Ltd v Bird (VO) [2014] RA 145 –acted for retail ratepayers at Fosse Park securing reduction for material change of circumstances
  • Aviva v Whitby (VO) [2014] RA 61 – acted for ratepayer in leading case on the need for completion notices to be served before warehouse properties are entered in the rating list
  • Acted for VO in litigation including Harrods; Vtesse (2010 rating list), British Gas Trading Company (Peterborough Power Station case) and the rateability of the Mormon Temple at Preston
  • Kenya Aid Programme v Sheffield City Council [2014] QB 62 – represented charity in leading case on the scope of charitable relief.
  • North Somerset Council v Honda and Graham [2010] R.A. 285 – acted for ratepayer in High Court proceedings concerning the consequences of a billing authority’s failure to serve a demand notice as soon as practicable.