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Business tendencies
Security of tenure for business tenancies under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 is a key area for a property litigator. Get the research and tools to advise on how security arises and how it’s terminated, daily.
Forfeiture
Guidance covers the procedural and practical considerations prior to and throughout the process of forfeiting a lease. We give detailed guidance, linking deeper commentary, forms, precedents and a wide range of Q&As.
Electronic Communication Code
Guidance to secure rights to install and retain equipment to provide electronic communications services. Code issues, in respect of granting and terminating agreements, frequently arise between landowners and operators.
Property disputes
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Latest Property Disputes News
This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: analysis of a High Court judgment concerning a landlord overcharging for...
Researchers from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Harvard-Radcliffe Institute, Maynooth University and the Toulouse School of Economics have...
Dispute Resolution analysis: The minutes of the Online Procedure Rule Committee (OPRC) meeting of 12 May 2025 (conducted in a hybrid format at The...
Property Disputes analysis: The High Court has held that a landlord of commercial premises had been significantly overcharging its tenant insurance...
This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes an analysis of a case where the Technology and Construction Court clarified the...
Latest Property Disputes Practice Notes
Quick guide to service charge protections under the Building Safety Act 2022This Practice Note summarises the service charge exemptions, whereby no or...
Severance of a joint tenancySeverance is the process by which a joint tenancy is converted into a tenancy in common. It is a matter of evidence...
Property key future developments trackerOnce a development occurs, it is then moved to the relevant archive:•Property key future developments...
The Heat Network Metering and Billing Regulations—heat supplier and landlord obligationsThe Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014, SI...
Rogue landlords and property agents—database and banning ordersPart 2 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (HPA 2016) implements various measures to...
Latest Property Disputes Precedents
Reversioner’s notice requiring evidence of tenant’s right to participate—flat collective enfranchisement (LRHUDA 1993)LEASEHOLD REFORM, HOUSING AND...
Landlord’s Section 45 Counter-notice to Tenant s 42 NoticeLandlord’s counter-notice under section 45 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban...
Notice by landlord requiring the tenant to deduce title—flat lease extension (LRHUDA 1993)LEASEHOLD REFORM, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT...
Notice to complete—enfranchisement or lease extension—house (LRA 1967)LEASEHOLD REFORM ACT 1967Leasehold Reform(Enfranchisement and Extension)...
Notice of objection to further severance of premises above or below other property—house enfranchisement and lease extension claims (LRA...
Latest Property Disputes Q&As
Featured Property Disputes content
Private nuisance—general principles
Private nuisance—general principlesWhat situations can give rise to a claim?Private nuisance is a ‘violation of real property rights’. It involves...
Occupiers’ liability
Occupiers’ liabilityOccupiers' Liability Act 1957Under the Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 (OLA 1957), an occupier of property owes a common law duty of...
Specific performance of property agreements
Specific performance of property agreementsIf a party to a property agreement fails to comply with its obligations, the other party may wish to apply...
Forfeiture of a lease
Forfeiture of a leaseWhen can a landlord exercise the right to forfeit a lease?Forfeiture is a landlord’s right to bring a lease to an end as a result...
Remedies for breach of restrictive covenants
Remedies for breach of restrictive covenantsThis Practice Note explains when damages for breach of restrictive covenants might be awarded in lieu of...
Notice to complete
Notice to completeThis Practice Note covers what ready, willing and able means and the consequences of serving an invalid notice. A party who is...
Nuisance—what are public and private nuisance claims?
Nuisance—what are public and private nuisance claims?Nuisance claims are recognised in the following way:•private nuisance—substantial interference...
Periodic tenancies
Periodic tenanciesThis Practice Note sets out the nature of a periodic tenancy and the procedure and notice periods for terminating such a tenancy. It...
Rectification—mutual mistake
Rectification—mutual mistakeRectification is an equitable remedy by which the court can correct an error of expression where a written document does...
Quick guide to benefit and burden of covenants on assignment
Quick guide to benefit and burden of covenants on assignmentThe Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995 (LT(C)A 1995) provides that any lease granted...
Claims for use and occupation, mesne profits, double rent and double value
Claims for use and occupation, mesne profits, double rent and double valueThis Practice Note provides guidance on claims for ‘use and occupation’ or...
Trespass—remedies
Trespass—remediesThis Practice Note covers the remedies available to landowners who find their property has been unlawfully occupied by a trespasser...
Can a deposit held as stakeholder be released if one set of solicitors is unresponsive or provides spurious reasons for withholding consent?
Return or forfeiture of a deposit
Return or forfeiture of a depositA buyer's right to the return of a deposit and the seller's right to forfeit the deposit in relation to a property...
Surrender by operation of law (implied surrender)
Surrender by operation of lawA surrender by operation of law (or ‘implied surrender’) occurs when the unequivocal conduct of both parties is...
Rectification—unilateral mistake
Rectification—unilateral mistakeThis Practice Note considers the remedy of rectification for unilateral mistake. For rectification for common mistake,...
Quick guide to tenant remedies for landlord’s breach of lease
Quick guide to tenant remedies for landlord’s breach of leaseThis Practice Note gives brief details of the main remedies available to tenants to deal...
Associated legal terms
Interim rent
The amount of rent which a tenant pays whilst its tenancy is continued pursuant to LTA 1954, s 24, where an application for interim rent is made by the landlord or tenant.
Light obstruction notice
A light obstruction notice interrupts a prescriptive right of light in the course of being acquired by another landowner without the necessity of physically obstructing the light.
Rights of light
A right of light is a form of easement that gives a landowner the right to receive light through defined apertures in buildings on its land.
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