This Practice Note discusses the statutory right (subject to statutory qualifying criteria) of qualifying tenants of long leases of houses to acquire the freehold (individual enfranchisement), or to buy a 50-year extension of the lease of the house under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (LRA 1967). It includes guidance in respect of the qualifying criteria for premises and tenants, service of a notice of tenant’s claim and landlord’s notice in reply, applications to the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) (or Leasehold Valuation Tribunal (LVT) in Wales) and County Court procedure, valuation and calculation of the purchase price, and completion of the acquisition. Houses—the right to enfranchise A tenant of a leasehold house and any attendant premises (eg a garden, garage, yard etc) is entitled under the LRA 1967 to acquire: • the freehold if all the following conditions are fulfilled: ◦ the tenancy is a long tenancy (see Long tenancy below) (references to long tenancy do not include business tenancies

1 Consequential Loss means in relation to a breach of this Agreement, any indirect or consequential

This Practice Note discusses the statutory right (subject to statutory qualifying criteria) of qualifying tenants of long leases of flats to collectively acquire the freehold of the relevant premises containing the flats (collectively enfranchise) under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (LRHUDA 1993), including guidance in respect of the qualifying criteria for premises and tenants, service of a section 13 notice and a section 21 counter-notice, applications to the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) (or Leasehold Valuation Tribunal (LVT) in Wales), County Court procedure, valuation and calculation of the purchase price, and completion of the acquisition. For a table setting out common time limits involved in the collective enfranchisement procedure, see Practice Note: Quick guide to time limits for collective enfranchisement under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993. The collective right to enfranchise Subject to various qualifying criteria, tenants who hold long leases of flats have a collective right under LRHUDA 1993, s 1 to have the freehold

1 If the Contractor fails to execute and deliver any collateral warranty

The Vancouver Maritime Arbitrators Association

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analyses of the Court of Justice’s judgments in Public Resource/Right to Know v European Commission on the overriding public interest in the publication of harmonised standards for compliance with EU law and in VT, UR v Conny GmbH on distance contract information obligations in case of conditional payments as well as commentary on online marketplaces being the next frontier under the EU Digital Services Act (EU DSA). This week, the Council of the EU adopted the retail investment package, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) and the European Commission launched two advice pilots for the Accelerating Clinical Trials (ACT EU) initiative and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 which establishes a list of High-Value datasets in the context of the EU Open Data Directive has started applying. In addition, the weekly highlights includes commentary on Meta’s new privacy policy which will be scrutinised by EU data protection authorities and the uncertainty over some EU AI Act terms.

Terms sheets are preliminary agreements that precede substantive contract negotiations. They are also be referred to as: heads of agreement or heads of terms, letters of intent; pre-contract protocol or memoranda of understanding. They provide an outline of the commercial deal agreed between the proposed parties to a contract rather than detailing the finer points.

In brief Data protection laws in the EEA (the EU plus Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein) seek to ensure information about living individuals (within the definition of ‘personal data’) is used fairly and responsibly. To help ensure this, the EEA data protection laws impose a large number of obligations on those ‘processing’ personal data and on controllers of such processing. ‘Processing’ is broadly defined to include doing most things with data, including storing, deleting, collecting, disclosing or using it. One of the key protections under EEA data protection laws is the set of obligations placed on ‘controllers’ (usually meaning those that decide the purposes and means of processing) and ‘processors’ (those that process personal data on behalf of a controller further to the controller’s instructions). Among other things, EEA data protection laws usually require controllers and processors to put in place contracts containing certain minimum provisions and to ensure any processor(s) they engage are suitable. In a cloud computing arrangement, the end customer will often act as controller and the supplier as its processor. This

The CMAC model arbitration clause is as follows:

This week's edition of Local Government weekly highlights includes expert analysis of the decisions in One Tickle & Summers v BBC and others, which in the Court of Appeal reversed the anonymisation of family court judges; Medicare v NHS Northamptonshire ICB, concerning an application by a contracting authority to lift the automatic suspension under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, focusing on the balance between damages and convenience, with compelling factors favoring the suspension's removal; the Divisional Court’s ruling that rent is not payable by contract-holders in Wales unless and until landlords provide them with a copy of Electrical Condition Reports (ECRs) for their homes, in Coastal Housing Group v Mitchell; and Re Purity Ltd, where the Administrative Court heard a company's request for stay denied in HMRC winding up case under the Finance Act 2022. Case reports include Re Recognition of Nigerian Adoption, where the court ruled in favour of the recognition of Nigerian adoption in England; Gregory v JCIO, which in the court determined that the claimants' complaints about a judicial decision and case management; the court’s Court denial of a Deprivation of Liberty Order in Rochdale BC v The Mother; and Vanhove v SSE, where the court upheld the TRA panel's decision on unauthorized school fund use. The weekly highlights includes further updates on Social care, Healthcare and Environmental law and climate change.

Banking & Finance analysis: This News Analysis provides a summary of the cases we have alerted in Banking & Finance for December 2025 and January 2026.

The Law Society’s Conveyancing Protocol (2019) (the Protocol) sets out the Law Society’s preferred practice in residential conveyancing transactions. It aims to make the residential conveyancing process more efficient and consistent. There are two parts to the Protocol: • the general solicitor obligations, and • the Protocol framework These are considered in more detail below. For further guidance on managing residential conveyancing transactions, please see: Residential conveyancing—selling a registered freehold property—checklist and Residential conveyancing—buying a registered freehold property—checklist. Which transactions does the Protocol apply to? The Protocol is intended for use in a residential sale and purchase transaction for an owner occupier. It is assumed that the buyer’s and seller’s solicitors will also act for their clients’ respective lenders. It is not intended for use with the purchase of new build homes. Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) accredited solicitors must use the Protocol (there are exceptions in certain circumstances such as client instructions and changes to the law). Non-CQS accredited conveyancers are not obliged to use the Protocol but it is considered