Justine is Head of the Social Housing Litigation Team and is a Partner and Solicitor-Advocate.
Justine has 19 years’ experience in the social housing sector and deals with a wide-range of housing management, asset management and complex litigation cases.
Justine has a wealth of experience in housing conditions and disrepair claims, unlawful eviction and breach of covenant actions, discrimination claims, trusts issues, homelessness and allocations, judicial review, anti-social behaviour, possession claims, complaints, policy drafting, drafting tenancy agreement clauses and complex litigation.
Justine delivers prompt commercial outcomes, is technically very able and is seen as a tenacious lawyer by her clients and opponents.
Clients say the following: –
“Justine Hunkins is an experienced and commercial lawyer with sound sector knowledge”.
LEGAL 500 2024
“Justine is very good at communicating advice; she explains complex issues and the reasoning behind it well.”
CHAMBERS AND PARTNERS 2024
“She is a very helpful lawyer with vast experience.”
CHAMBERS AND PARTNERS 2024
“Justine is good to deal with and takes time to explain complex issues.”
CHAMBERS AND PARTNERS 2025
Justine has been responsible for designing and delivering bespoke housing conditions and disrepair claims handling packages, which have a proven track record of reducing costs, reducing claim turn-around times and streamlining Registered Provider clients’ internal processes.
Justine has been responsible for teams appointed as the sole provider of housing conditions claims management services for a number of large registered providers. A registered provider client with over 30,000 properties says: – “Through working collaboratively with Justine, we have established an effective approach to handling and processing disrepair claims which ensures compliance with the disrepair protocol, whilst generating significant savings in cost, time and resources for the client. The effectiveness of the relationship between us has produced fantastic results in reducing the average claim time from 159 days down to 36.5 days.”
