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...
This Practice Note considers the current position and provides guidance on the interpretation and application of the relevant provisions of the CPR....
This Practice Note explains the procedure for handling commercial service charge disputes including by reference to the mandatory obligations and best...
ARCHIVED: The third edition of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Code of Practice ‘Service charges in commercial property’ (and all...
This Practice Note explains the procedure for handling some of the most common residential service charge disputes under the Landlord and Tenant Act...
Repair and improvementsA tenant will not generally be expected to pay for the landlord to upgrade or improve its property as opposed to repairing it....
The law requires that leaseholders paying variable service charges must be consulted before a landlord carries out qualifying works or enters into a...
Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, s 18 (LTA 1985) defines a service charge as 'an amount payable by a tenant of a [dwelling] as part of or in addition to...
Service charges allow the landlord of a property to recover from the tenant the costs of operating and servicing the building.The Landlord and Tenant...
The right to manage (RTM) allows some leasehold property owners to take over management of the building, even without the agreement of the landlord,...
In the case of commercial premises, the protection afforded to residential tenants by the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (LTA 1985) will not apply. As...