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The Master of the Rolls and the Minister of State for Justice have signed the 195th Practice Direction (PD) Update, which broadens the scope of the...
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published a policy paper setting out how it will collect and use data to monitor...
This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: a Court of Appeal decision regarding the status of unexercised options to renew...
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has announced the introduction of a Neighbourhood Guarantee establishing minimum...
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...
Can a tenant retract a notice to quit previously served to exercise a break clause in an assured shorthold tenancy before expiry of the notice?Whether a notice to quit can be retractedThere is various authority for the position that a notice to quit, once it has been served, cannot be
Does a notice to quit expire? Possession proceedings must be brought within 12 months of serving a section 8 notice, but is the same applicable to possession proceedings for a notice to quit?This Q&A considers the nature of a notice to quit served in respect of a tenancy which does not have the
Rent Act tenancies—terminating and obtaining possessionThis Practice Note covers how a Rent Act 1977 (RA 1977) protected tenancy may be brought to an end including by the service of a notice to quit, and sets out the requirements of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977. It also covers the grounds
If a rentcharge is shown as being informally exonerated on title information, does this apply to the current registered owner? Or does the informal exoneration only apply to the parties to the document which informally exonerated the rentcharge?This Q&A considers the situation where, at some
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