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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
Restructuring & Insolvency analysis: In The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London v Robinson Webster (Holdings) Ltd, the High Court,...
The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee (HCLG Committee) has launched a pre-legislative scrutiny inquiry examining the Government's...
This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: the BPF and Law Commission’s comments on the draft Commonhold and Leasehold...
Local Government analysis: The Upper Tribunal (UT) considered the definition of cooking facilities as part of the test for whether a building is an...
The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has published the Rent Standard 2026, which sets out the requirements governing how registered providers must...
Latest Property Disputes Practice Notes
Quick guide to common time limits for property disputes lawyersFORTHCOMING CHANGE: The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 27 October...
Claiming title by adverse possession under the Limitation Act 1980 or the Land Registration Act 1925This Practice Note explains when it is possible to...
Civil justice reform in Scotland—virtual hearings and electronic submission of documentsThis Practice Note provides guidance on current rules and...
Estoppel—what, when and how to pleadWhat is an estoppel?As Lord Denning MR put it in Moorgate Mercantile v Twitchings (page [323]), estoppel is a...
Break options in commercial leases—disputes—ScotlandBreak clausesA break clause is a term in a lease which permits the landlord or the tenant to...
Latest Property Disputes Precedents
Landlord’s notice to act independently—flat lease extension (LRHUDA 1993)Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, section 40 and...
Landlord’s defence opposing tenant’s claim for a lease renewalClaim No. [insert claim number].[IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE[BUSINESS AND PROPERTY...
Vacant possession strategy—scheduleFORTHCOMING CHANGE: The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 27 October 2025. For guidance regarding...
Application for landlord’s consent to underlet[To be printed on the headed paper of the tenant’s solicitors]Dear [insert appropriate form of address...
Letter to administrator requesting consent to bring proceedings against a company in administration[insert name, address and contact...
Latest Property Disputes Q&As
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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
Alienation
Assigning, underletting, parting with or sharing possession or occupation of premises. Typically a lease will contain restrictions on a tenant’s ability to do so, without the landlord’s prior written consent.
Rights of light
A right of light is a form of easement that gives a landowner the right to receive light through defined apertures in buildings on its land.
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.
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