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Business tendencies
Security of tenure for business tenancies under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 is a key area for a property litigator. Get the research and tools to advise on how security arises and how it’s terminated, daily.
Forfeiture
Guidance covers the procedural and practical considerations prior to and throughout the process of forfeiting a lease. We give detailed guidance, linking deeper commentary, forms, precedents and a wide range of Q&As.
Electronic Communication Code
Guidance to secure rights to install and retain equipment to provide electronic communications services. Code issues, in respect of granting and terminating agreements, frequently arise between landowners and operators.
Property disputes
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Latest Property Disputes News
Dispute Resolution analysis: The minutes of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) meeting of 3 October 2025 (conducted in a hybrid format at The...
This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: property-related announcements from this year’s Budget, Upper Tribunal decisions...
Dispute Resolution analysis: The minutes of the Online Procedure Rule Committee (OPRC) meeting of 20 October 2025—held in hybrid format at the Royal...
In the Budget 2025, on 26 November 2025, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, set out a number of measures impacting the...
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has submitted recommendations to HM Treasury ahead of Budget 2025, calling for business rates...
Latest Property Disputes Practice Notes
Property key future developments trackerOnce a development occurs, it is then moved to the relevant archive:•Property key future developments...
Property case tracker—2025FORTHCOMING CHANGE: The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 27 October 2025. For guidance regarding the Act’s...
Charging orders and orders for sale—practical considerationsA judgment creditor may apply to court for a charging order to secure their debt if the...
Limitation—contract claimsThis Practice Note provides guidance on the limitation periods for breach of contract claims pursuant to the Limitation Act...
Common law tenanciesFORTHCOMING CHANGE: The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 27 October 2025. For guidance regarding the Act’s impact...
Latest Property Disputes Precedents
Notice of tenant's claim against a landlord which has a right to retain property for public purposes—section 28(1)(b)(ii)—house enfranchisement and...
Section 21 noticeFORTHCOMING CHANGE: The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 27 October 2025. For guidance regarding the Act’s impact on...
Authorised guarantee agreementDate: [date]Parties1[name of Landlord] [of OR incorporated in England and Wales (company registration number [number])...
Notice of tenant’s claim to acquire the freehold or an extended lease—house enfranchisement or lease extension (LRA 1967)LEASEHOLD REFORM,...
Vacant possession strategy—scheduleFORTHCOMING CHANGE: The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 27 October 2025. For guidance regarding...
Latest Property Disputes Q&As
Featured Property Disputes content
Private nuisance—general principles
Private nuisance—general principlesWhat situations can give rise to a claim?Private nuisance is a ‘violation of real property rights’. It involves...
Occupiers’ liability
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 agreements
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 lease
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...
Remedies for breach of restrictive covenants
Remedies for breach of restrictive covenantsThis Practice Note explains when damages for breach of restrictive covenants might be awarded in lieu of...
Notice to complete
Notice to completeThis Practice Note covers what ready, willing and able means and the consequences of serving an invalid notice. A party who is...
Nuisance—what are public and private nuisance claims?
Nuisance—what are public and private nuisance claims?Nuisance claims are recognised in the following way:•private nuisance—substantial interference...
Periodic tenancies
Periodic tenanciesThis Practice Note sets out the nature of a periodic tenancy and the procedure and notice periods for terminating such a tenancy. It...
Rectification—mutual mistake
Rectification—mutual mistakeRectification is an equitable remedy by which the court can correct an error of expression where a written document does...
Quick guide to benefit and burden of covenants on assignment
Quick guide to benefit and burden of covenants on assignmentThe Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995 (LT(C)A 1995) provides that any lease granted...
Claims for use and occupation, mesne profits, double rent and double value
Claims for use and occupation, mesne profits, double rent and double valueThis Practice Note provides guidance on claims for ‘use and occupation’ or...
Trespass—remedies
Trespass—remediesThis Practice Note covers the remedies available to landowners who find their property has been unlawfully occupied by a trespasser...
Can a deposit held as stakeholder be released if one set of solicitors is unresponsive or provides spurious reasons for withholding consent?
Return or forfeiture of a deposit
Return or forfeiture of a depositA buyer's right to the return of a deposit and the seller's right to forfeit the deposit in relation to a property...
Surrender by operation of law (implied surrender)
Surrender by operation of lawA surrender by operation of law (or ‘implied surrender’) occurs when the unequivocal conduct of both parties is...
Rectification—unilateral mistake
Rectification—unilateral mistakeThis Practice Note considers the remedy of rectification for unilateral mistake. For rectification for common mistake,...
Quick guide to tenant remedies for landlord’s breach of lease
Quick guide to tenant remedies for landlord’s breach of leaseThis Practice Note gives brief details of the main remedies available to tenants to deal...
Associated legal terms
Interim rent
The amount of rent which a tenant pays whilst its tenancy is continued pursuant to LTA 1954, s 24, where an application for interim rent is made by the landlord or tenant.
Schedule of Dilapidations
A schedule served by a landlord on its tenant, which sets out the items of disrepair at a property caused by the tenant’s failure to perform its repairing, decorating, and where appropriate, reinstatement obligations in the lease. The items of work detailed in the schedule may be costed.
Surrender by operation of law
Also known as an implied surrender. It occurs when the unequivocal conduct of both parties is inconsistent with the continuation of the tenancy. It is often demonstrated by the delivery of possession by the tenant and acceptance by the landlord.
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