About Beverley

Beverley is an Advanced Associate Paralegal & Team Leader within our Property Lettings & Revenue team, which is led by Gina Peters.

With over a decade of experience in her field, Beverley specialises in Landlord & Tenant law and Lettings law.

Additional specialisms:

  • Block Management
  • Applications to set aside and dismiss claims
  • Debt recovery
  • Damages and dilapidations claims
  • Enforcement proceedings

Why A Career In Law?

Beverley wanted to use her problem-solving skills to impact and improve people's day to day lives, so she pursued a career in law.

Beverley specialises in Landlord and Tenant Law because housing is a fundamental aspect of everyone’s life, and she enjoys navigating the complex regulations to provide actionable solutions for her clients.

A Successful Day

For Beverley, a successful day is one where she has helped her clients and left them feeling heard, protected, and clear on their next steps.

Beverley ensures this by being organised, comprehensively preparing for each individual client’s matter, and approaching each conversation with active listening and empathy.

Rewarding Elements

Beverley says: “The most rewarding element of my role is providing clarity and relief to clients who are often navigating highly stressful and emotional housing disputes.”

Breaking down complex property regulations into practical solutions and ultimately helping clients achieve a fair outcome is something that Beverley finds incredibly fulfilling.

A Historical Trial That Beverley Would Have Liked To Have Attended

Beverley outlines that she would have loved to have been involved in the landmark case of Street vs Mountford (1985): “it fundamentally reshaped Landlord and Tenant Law by clearly defining the essential characteristics of a tenancy versus a license.”

Being part of a case that established such a critical legal framework for housing rights would have been fascinating for Beverley.

We had to evict a very difficult tenant in order to complete the sales of the property. There was a year of struggle before we started the legal process with Dutton Gregory.

Although the tenant tried to make the process as difficult as possible for us, Beverley and her team helped us to navigate through the process giving professional legal advice.

It has been a year since we started the process and we have just evicted the tenant. Although we still have to deal with the belongings she left behind over the next two weeks, we are relieved to regain the possession of the property.

We are grateful to the DG team and would highly recommend them to landlords who need legal support.

A - September 2025

Dutton Gregory helped us to obtain possession order of our property.

The process was handled professionally and efficiently.

Special thanks to Beverley Nias who gave clear advice and made the whole experience stress free.

SM - August 2025

I found the service Beverley provided was professional and informative throughout, ultimately getting the desired result at the end.

I would recommend Dutton Gregory's services to others.

LS - January 2025