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This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: analysis of a Court of Appeal decision on the binding nature of boundary agreements, the progress of the Renters’ Rights Bill, analysis on the impact of the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 on the property industry, and High Court decisions on enforcing a loan agreement via the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, the proportionality of seeking possession against a disabled tenant, and an application for a proprietary injunction. It also includes publication of the 11th Edition of the King’s Bench Guide.
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This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: High Court decisions on the apportionment of rent following a partial vesting of a disclaimed lease, and damages for terminal dilapidations. It also covers proposed reforms concerning leaseholder fees and regulation of property agents and reforms to Empty Dwelling Management Orders, and an Upper Tribunal decision on a director's liability for a company’s HMO offence.
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This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: High Court decisions concerning a claimant’s right to recover property transferred under an unauthorised agreement, a Court of Appeal decision concerning whether a boundary agreement binds successors in title and Upper Tribunal decisions concerning an appeal regarding the quantum of rent repayment orders and the determination of service charges payable under a lease. It also includes news analyses on 100 years since the Law of Property Act 1925 and the first-ever building liability order and information orders awarded under Building Safety Act 2022, the partial coming into force of the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 and publication of the Civil Justice Council’s final report on modernising civil enforcement processes.
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This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes two Court of Appeal decisions on the Building Safety Act 2022 and High Court decisions on rights to light and the Electronic Communications Code. It also includes other building safety news and consultations on reforms to the Decent Homes Standards and leasehold service charges.
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This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: second reading of the Renters’ Rights Bill, the coming into force of provisions of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 which amend the Building Safety Act 2022, High Court decisions on whether a minor can benefit from a common intention constructive trust, whether leases were to be included in restructuring plans, and an injunction to restrain protests. It also includes Upper Tribunal cases concerning the defence of reasonable excuse for failing to obtain a licence for a house in multiple occupation, the effect of failing to use a prescribed form in an application to the FTT, and a whether a rural property was a single hereditament for the purposes of non-domestic rating.
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This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: High Court decisions on delay under a building safety remediation agreement, the benefit of a restrictive covenant, and the ownership of church buildings, analysis of the creation of the Business and Property Division of the High Court, and recent First-tier Tribunal decisions under the Building Safety Act 2022.
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This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: a Court of Appeal decision on the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987, High Court decisions on a constructive trust arising from breach of director’s duties and the statutory requirements for a certificate under the tenancy deposit legislation, an Upper Tribunal decision on service charges under section 27A of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, and the introduction of the Housing (Scotland) Bill.
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This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: an Upper Tribunal decision concerning the rejection of an adverse possession claim following clarification of lost conveyance terms, Court of Appeal decisions concerning leaseholder liability to contribute via service charges to remedying pre-existing structural defects in right to buy schemes, and the correct legal test for reasonableness of costs in long-term equipment hire and maintenance contracts under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, High Court decisions concerning equitable set-aside of a fraudulently obtained judgment, and the limitation of the breach of contract principle in deposit recovery. It also includes minutes of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee meeting held on 7 November 2025, a speech by the Master of the Rolls’ regarding housing sector innovations and new online procedure reforms, the Online Procedure Rule Committee’s consultation on the first Online Procedure Rules under the 2022 Act, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s and Ministry of Justice’s call for evidence on housing disrepair claims management, Senedd Research’s analyses of the Building Safety (Wales) Bill scope and regulatory concerns, and the House of Lords’ library briefing on the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill.
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This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: a Court of Appeal decision concerning recovery of costs under service charge provisions in a long lease, new Upper Tribunal practice directions, an Upper Tribunal decision on the liability of a tenant’s assignee to pay the costs of a lease extension of a flat, Law Society guidance on the new video hearings service being introduced in 2024, and Chancery Division decisions on equitable interests following the rescission of a contract of a sale, the valid exercise of three options and specific performance of the resulting sale contracts, and consequential orders made in respect of the mistaken discharge of registered legal charges.
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This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: analysis of likely property developments under the new Labour government and reactions to the general election from a variety of built environment industry bodies, the 170th Practice Direction update to the Civil Procedure Rules, a High Court case on replacement of an expert, and a Scottish case on a public right of passage.
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This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: a Court of Appeal decision regarding an undivided basement car park that did not constitute a ‘self contained’ building under the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 (CLRA 2002), and High Court decisions concerning an order for specific performance requiring remediation of defective external cladding, dismissal of a claim for beneficial interest in two properties, an erroneous Land Registration Act 2002, Schedule 4 rectification claim, a seller entitled to keep deposit after contractual breach of a conditional conveyance, contractual rescission after a landlord withheld consent to assign right of pre-emption, the enforcement of a possession order, the choice of landlord repair methods, and the application of unfair relationship provisions applied to a loan secured against property in a coercive relationship. It also includes an Upper Tribunal decision regarding shared facilities that prevented building from being ‘self-contained’ under CLRA 2002), and the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 (Conferral of Tribunal Jurisdiction under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 etc) Regulations 2026.
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This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: a High Court decision on an alleged oral agreement in a family business dispute, recent FTT decisions on the Electronic Communications Code and Building Safety Act 2022, an Upper Tribunal decision on variation of leases, and news of the Law Commission’s property-related projects.