Property Disputes weekly highlights—16 September 2021

Published on: 16 September 2021

Published by: LexisPSL

Property Disputes weekly highlights—16 September 2021
In this issue:
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Residential notice periods to return to pre-Covid levels in England
Insolvency Service announces lifting of temporary insolvency measures
HMCTS publishes updated operational summary for week commencing 13 September 2021
Rents and rates
CMA action leads to developer’s commitment to remove lease terms doubling ground rent
Enforcing security and property insolvency
UK parking nightmare—what is happening with NCP’s restructuring plan?

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Rights of light, other easements and covenants
No obligation to maintain and repair access route found to rest with either dominant or servient owners (Barre v Martin)
Redditch BC and Bromsgrove DC to join Local Land Charges Register
Contractual issues
Whose fraud is it anyway? The effect of forgery and the defence of illegality on equitable property interests (Victus (2) v Munroe; Benjamin v Victus (1))
Service charges
Law Society warns that Building Safety Bill still leaves leaseholders bearing brunt of cladding crisis
Disputes and remedies
Updated guidance published on bundles, skeleton arguments and authorities in the Business and Property Courts in Manchester
Key developments and horizon scanning
House of Lords continues scrutiny of Environment Bill at report stage
PLA recommends reforms to landlord and tenant legislation
Daily and weekly news alerts
Dates for your diary
Trackers
New Q&As

Article summary

This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: a summary of recent measures and guidance on coronavirus (COVID-19), the ending of revised notice periods for notices seeking possession of residential property, the introduction of new restrictions on winding-up petitions to replace the measures ending on 30 September, a High Court case on the effect of forgery on the transfer of equitable interests in property and a warning from the Law Society on the Building Safety Bill. Sign in or take a trial to read the full analysis.