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This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: the Building Safety (Wales) Bill and English Devolution and Community Empowerment...
The CIOT has published a news item on the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 and SDLT on residential leases....
Restructuring & Insolvency analysis: The court, on appeal, clarified the approach to be taken in determining whether or not exceptional circumstances...
The Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, delivered a speech to the Judicial Institute for Scotland in Edinburgh on 30 April 2026 examining how...
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
Tenant’s remedies for unreasonable withholding of consent—assignment and underlettingThis Practice Note explains the remedies available to a tenant who has applied for consent to assign or underlet in circumstances where consent is not to be unreasonably withheld, and the landlord has unreasonably
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
What is the difference between an appeal and a review?What is an appeal?An appeal in insolvency proceedings is no different to an appeal in normal litigation. An appeal will be allowed only if the appeal court is satisfied that the decision of the lower court was 'wrong' or 'unjust because of a
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