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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: industry responses to the Draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill, High Court...
Dispute Resolution analysis: This case concerned the court’s power to grant an injunction to restrain a litigant from sending abusive communications...
Local Government analysis: The determination of the owner of a hereditament as the person liable for business rates under section 65(1) of the Local...
The Property Litigation Association (PLA) has submitted its response to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee in relation to...
This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: publication of the explanatory notes and BPF’s guidance on the Renters’ Rights...
Latest Property Disputes Practice Notes
This Practice Note explains what a Part 8 (CPR 8) claim is and when it can be used. It also explains which CPR rules do not apply when dealing with a...
A landlord or a tenant may need information about the other’s interest in the property prior to serving a valid notice to renew or to end a tenancy....
This Practice Note summarises the law, guidance and practice relating to the execution of simple contracts and deeds. It considers the key differences...
This ‘how to’ guide considers how to serve a landlord’s certificate (and former landlord’s certificate) under the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA 2022),...
This Practice Note summarises what landlord’s certificates are under the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA 2022), and the form, content, deadlines for...
Latest Property Disputes Precedents
FORTHCOMING CHANGE: The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 27 October 2025. For guidance regarding the Act’s impact on residential...
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[insert address of Landlord’s solicitor or agent]Our ref: [insert reference]Date: [insert date]To: [Name and address of Tenant]By First Class Recorded...
[insert address of Landlord’s solicitor or agent ]Our ref: [insert reference]Date: [insert date]To: [Name and address of Tenant]By First Class...
Notice to terminate leaseTo: [name of Landlord] (Landlord) of [address]From: [name of Tenant] (Tenant) of [address]Re: Lease dated [date]...
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
Electronic Communications Code
The Electronic Communications Code, inserted into the Communications Act 2003, Schedule 3A, by the Digital Economy act 2017. A code right is granted in relation to an operator and any land, for the statutory purposes of providing an operator's network/infrastructure system, and for activities set out in the code.
Peaceable reentry
A method of forfeiture where the landlord physically re-enters the premises by manifesting its intention to forfeit the lease, usually by changing the locks.
Section 21 notice
A notice pursuant to section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 (HA 1988) which is served to determine an assured shorthold tenancy.
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