When is a contract a void contract?A void contract is one that is wholly lacking in legal effect. A contract will be void where:•the parties contract...
Damages or injunction — the testThe primary remedy for breach of a restrictive covenant is a permanent injunction to restrain the breach. However, the...
There can be only one lease at a time giving a right to possession and occupation of property. Consequently, if a landlord subsequently grants a lease...
This Practice Note covers what happens to a lease on disclaimer and the effect of disclaimer on tenants, guarantors and former tenants, applications...
The implied or deemed surrender and re-grant of a lease arises where an agreed variation of the terms of the original lease is so fundamental that the...
Is there an interference with the right to light?Where a right of light has been established (see Practice Note: Establishing and maintaining rights...
Tenants who meet the criteria set out in Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (LRHUDA 1993) can require the landlord to sell the...
PSL Practice Note: Exercising the collective right to enfranchise—contract, conveyance and payment sets out the statutory requirements in respect of...
Section 13 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (LRHUDA 1993) is concerned with the giving of notice by qualifying tenants...
This query raises the effect of a notice of claim to exercise the right to manage under Part 2 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 (CLRA...
Can an executor serve a section 42 notice?Under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 where a tenant had the right to a lease...
Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (LRHUDA 1993) sets out strict timescales for the completion of a statutory lease extension of...
By section 19 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (LRHUDA 1993):‘(1) Where the initial notice [ie the section 13 notice]...
In theory, a landlord might have several remedies available in relation to unlawful alterations: (i) forfeiture; (ii) injunction and/or damages; and...
The Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (LRHUDA 1993) allows a qualifying tenant to apply for an extension to a lease of a flat....