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Lewisham Council has launched an intelligence-led taskforce to identify non-compliant landlords through data analysis, local intelligence and targeted...
This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: the SRA’s warning notice addressing AI misuse risks for solicitors and law firms,...
Restructuring & Insolvency analysis: In Together Commercial Finance Ltd v Slack, the High Court held that Law of Property Act receivers could sell a...
The Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, delivered the John Lehane Memorial Lecture at the Supreme Court of New South Wales, addressing the...
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...
Sharing possession and sharing occupation'Possession' and 'occupation' are not interchangeable expressions. A covenant in a lease that forbids parting with possession is not broken by a tenant who, in law, retains possession, even though the tenant allows another to use and occupy the
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 with a breach of covenant by the landlord, or interference with the tenant’s rights. These include remedies to deal with a specific breach, such as an
Landlord’s remedies for assigning or underletting without consentFor guidance on the usual forms of covenant against assigning and underletting, and on whether consent has been reasonably withheld, see Practice Note: Landlord's consent to assign or underlet. If a breach has occurred, the following
Priority between loss reliefs in loss making companiesWhy does it matter?A company that is a member of a group and has incurred any of the types of losses available for surrender by way of group relief may, without any further rules, have more than one way in which to use the loss. There are a
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