Gain comprehensive insights and strategic solutions for navigating intricate landlord-tenant conflicts, lease renewals, and termination issues in commercial property settings. Tailored for legal professionals, this guidance addresses critical points to achieve favourable outcomes for your clients.
This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: High Court decisions on the apportionment of rent following a partial vesting of...
HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has published a collection of Business and Property Division forms which contains links to forms for use in...
The Home Office and UK Visas and Immigration have updated the statutory right to rent codes of practice and the landlord’s guide to right to rent...
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has announced plans to legislate for caps on permission fees charged to leaseholders...
Private nuisance—general principlesWhat situations can give rise to a claim?Private nuisance is a ‘violation of real property rights’. It involves...
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 agreementsIf a party to a property agreement fails to comply with its obligations, the other party may wish to apply...
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...
Section 27 LTA 1954—termination by a tenant—checklistTenants can use a notice under section 27 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (LTA 1954) to end a business tenancy either on, or any time after, the contractual expiry date. This Checklist explains when and how the notice can be served.For more
Section 40 information requestsA 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. Either party can serve a section 40 notice requesting information from the other.Why serve a section 40 notice?If a
Where a tenant authorises its solicitor to swear a statutory declaration to exclude Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, is there a required form of written authority, or, for example, would an email suffice? Can a trainee solicitor be so authorised?It is common for the tenant's solicitor to
What happens if a section 26 notice is served by the tenant, but an extension and the terms of the new lease are not agreed and the tenant fails to make an application before expiry of the section 26 notice period? Will this terminate the tenancy, or will the notice become redundant and the tenancy
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