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Dispute Resolution analysis: The minutes of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) annual open meeting of 8 May 2025 (conducted in a hybrid format...
Construction analysis: The Technology and Construction Court (TCC) struck out a property damage claim arising from adjoining building works and...
This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: a Court of Appeal decision regarding an undivided basement car park that did not...
Dispute Resolution analysis: The minutes of the Online Procedure Rule Committee (OPRC) meeting of 27 April 2026 (held via Microsoft Teams) cover a...
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...
Surrender by operation of law (implied surrender)This Practice Note covers how a surrender by operation of law (implied surrender) may arise, the effect of the landlord accepting the keys, and circumstances that may cause a surrender.Main principlesA surrender by operation of law (or ‘implied
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
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
Can shares in a limited company that have not been paid-up at all be cancelled?A limited company having a share capital may not alter that share capital, except in the ways listed in section 617 of the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006). Shares in a company cannot simply be cancelled without following an
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