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...
Marriage value and hope value‘Marriage value’ is the increase in value that occurs where a tenant acquires the freehold, as a result of which the full...
Subject to various qualifying criteria, tenants who hold long leases of flats have a collective right under section 1 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing...
The initial notice served under Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (LRHUDA 1993), s 13 (initial notice) triggers the statutory...
The Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (LRHUDA 1993) sets down the elements of the freeholder’s costs that can be recovered from...
The Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (LRHUDA 1993) enables qualifying leaseholders collectively to enfranchise and acquire the...
After the presentation of a petition for an administration order and until an administration order is discharged, the company enjoys protection from...
In producing this Q&A, we are assuming that the property comprised in the section 5 offer notice and the section 13 collective enfranchisement notice...
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