Cornerstone Barristers

This Q&A considers filing and issuing claims on Money Claim Online.

This Q&A considers whether a defendant can recover their costs of a successful strike out application in a small claims track case or whether it would be necessary to demonstrate that there has been unreasonable conduct.

This Q&A considers whether a freeholder can be prevented from charging excessive fees for a deed of variation to adjust the rent of a long lease in order to avoid the risk that it may become an AST.

This Q&A considers whether a headlease can be forfeited by re-entry due to the tenant being in rent arrears even though there is a subtenant who is in lawful occupation. The Q&A will further address the effect on that lawful subtenant.

This Q&A considers whether a landlord of a business tenancy can exclude themselves from relying on one or more of the grounds of opposition set out in section 30(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 by covenanting in the lease not to terminate it on specified grounds, for example redevelopment grounds.

This Q&A considers whether a lease protected by the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 can be forfeited during lease renewal proceedings.

This Q&A addresses whether a landlord who is bringing a claim against a former assured shorthold tenant for damage to the property which was rented out can include a claim for time which the landlord had to spend cleaning and decorating the property as a result of the damage and, if so, how that claim should be quantified.

This Q&A considers the enforcement of byelaws which a local authority has made in respect of a country park.

This Q&A considers whether, where title to some land is registered in the name of an individual partner or partners, the partnership which is made up of those partners has the right to grant a commercial lease of that land in the name of the partnership.

This Q&A considers whether a local authority can bring a prosecution under RTRA 1984, s 35A for a person’s failure to comply with conditions of an order prohibiting anti-social behaviour in a parking place.

This Q&A discusses whether a tenant under an AST can retract a notice to quit which they have served before the expiry date of the notice.

This Q&A looks at whether a third party can judicially review a local planning authority’s failure to provide notice of its decision on a prior approval decision within 56 days.

This Q&A looks at how to deal with the sale of land that is held by co-owners and considers the effect of only having one General Power of Attorney document.

This Q&A considers what are the minimum requirements for implementation of a planning permission granted for a change of use of land.

This Q&A addresses the question of whether obligations arising under section 17 of the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995 apply to guarantors of current tenants or whether they only apply to guarantors of former tenants.

This Q&A considers how to make a deed poll after the expiry of the notice to treat or the notice to enter.

This Q&A addresses the question of whether a static caravan can be a dwelling-house for the purpose of the Housing Act 1988, such that a landlord may serve a section 21 notice to terminate a tenancy of the caravan.

This Q&A considers the question of whether a landlord has to give notice in a specific form and obtain a court order to evict a tenant who has lived with the landlord for 24 years.

This Q&A addresses the question of whether a notice which is given under section 25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 is invalid if it gives the incorrect address when identifying the demised premises.

This Q&A considers whether the grant of a registrable lease out of an unregistered reversion triggers compulsory registration for that unregistered reversion.