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Property Disputes weekly highlights—9 April 2020

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Published on: 09 April 2020

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Table of contents

Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Courts and tribunals guidance
Guidance for England’s telecommunications infrastructure
Business rates measures analysed
Welsh government guidance to social housing landlords and tenants
Enfranchisement and right to manage
Landlord avoids enfranchisement claims by retaining structural parts
Service charges
Residential service charges—landlords cannot have their cake and eat it (Williams v Aviva)
Residential tenancies

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Article summary

This week’s edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes a summary of recent measures and guidance on coronavirus (COVID-19), Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) cases dealing with the terms of an agreement for Electronic Communications Code rights, residential service charges, and modification or discharge of restrictive covenants, a Court of Appeal decision on the public sector equality duty in possession claims, new claim and defence forms for accelerated possession proceedings, and a High Court ruling considering the liability for non-domestic rates in a shared hereditament.

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