Property Disputes weekly highlights—11 December 2025
This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: an Upper Tribunal decision concerning the rejection of an adverse possession claim following clarification of lost conveyance terms, Court of Appeal decisions concerning leaseholder liability to contribute via service charges to remedying pre-existing structural defects in right to buy schemes, and the correct legal test for reasonableness of costs in long-term equipment hire and maintenance contracts under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, High Court decisions concerning equitable set-aside of a fraudulently obtained judgment, and the limitation of the breach of contract principle in deposit recovery. It also includes minutes of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee meeting held on 7 November 2025, a speech by the Master of the Rolls’ regarding housing sector innovations and new online procedure reforms, the Online Procedure Rule Committee’s consultation on the first Online Procedure Rules under the 2022 Act, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s and Ministry of Justice’s call for evidence on housing disrepair claims management, Senedd Research’s analyses of the Building Safety (Wales) Bill scope and regulatory concerns, and the House of Lords’ library briefing on the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill.