Property Disputes weekly highlights—13 January 2022

Table of contents

• Enfranchisement and right to manage
• Supreme Court allows appeal and determines Gala Unity was wrongly decided (FirstPort Property Services Ltd v Settlers Court RTM Company and others)
• DLUHC consults on reforms to English and Welsh leasehold and commonhold systems
• Residential tenancies
• Welsh Government announces intention to implement landlord and tenant reform
• Repairing obligations and dilapidations
• DLUHC warns developers they must pay to fix cladding crisis
• Rights of light, other easements and covenants
• No annexation of benefit where land not sufficiently identified (Bath Rugby Ltd v Greenwood)
• Business tenancies

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Article summary

This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: announcements from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and a statement from the Law Society on the cladding crisis, a Supreme Court case on the right to manage, a Court of Appeal case on the annexation of the benefit of a restrictive covenant, a High Court case on mortgagee possession proceedings, and a County Court case on post-pandemic high street rents.