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Property Disputes weekly highlights—21 September 2017

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Published on: 21 September 2017

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Table of contents

Repairing obligations
Landlord disputes—replacement or repair? (DeHavilland Studios Ltd v Peries and another)
Disputes and remedies
Collateral waiver of privilege (Holyoake and another v Candy and others)
Additional Property Disputes updates this week
Property highlights
Dispute Resolution highlights
Social housing green paper to be announced ‘very soon’
Regulations governing Scottish private residential tenancies published
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Article summary

This week’s edition of Property Disputes highlights includes a case concerning whether a landlord was entitled to charge its tenants for repairs, when replacement may have been a better option and a second case, where the waiver of privilege was considered.

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