This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: a Court of Appeal decision on management service fees, High Court decisions on valuer negligence and deposit information under an assured shorthold tenancy, Upper Tribunal decisions on a rent repayment order, and the definition of an ‘accountable person’ under the Building Safety Act 2022, and a Scotland Sheriff Appeal Court decision on obligations under a commercial lease. It also covers the Telecommunications Infrastructure (Requirement to Share Apparatus) Bill, the Housing (Scotland) Bill and the Law Society’s response to the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill amendments.

This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) ’s announcement of a Neighbourhood Guarantee and local government reform measures, the Housing Committee’s report calling for faster and more extensive commonhold and leasehold reform, the 195th Practice Direction update that expands the digital claims process to non-monetary remedies, a Court of Appeal decision regarding whether errors in section 21 possession procedure documents were material, and High Court decisions concerning an unsuccessful application to amend due to the potential prejudice to the defendant’s limitation defence, and a renewal of an injunction preventing trespass. It also includes MHCLG’s publication of private rented sector data strategy to monitor Renters’ Rights Act 2025 reforms, a First-tier Tribunal decision regarding jurisdiction to extend a statutory timescale for an appeal against a remediation payment request and Technology and Construction Court decisions regarding service of claim forms by email, and whether the doctrine of frustration could discharge a lease due to cladding defects.

This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: a Court of Appeal decision on adverse possession and first registration, High Court decisions on the balance that must be struck between the rights to freedom of speech and assembly versus the prevention of trespass on private property, and beneficial ownership of a long leasehold restaurant property, and an Upper Tribunal decision on whether the First-tier Tribunal correctly decided to imply a legal obligations compliance term into a headlease. It also includes the approval of the 175th and 176th Practice Direction Updates to the Civil Procedure Rules, the publication of the minutes of the meeting of the King’s Bench Masters’ Court Users’ Group, the Civil Justice Council’s second phase report on the Pre-Action Protocols, the launch of the UK Supreme Court’s new digital platform and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s announcement of leasehold reforms for 2025, and publication of its impact assessment on the Renters’ Rights Bill.

This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: A Supreme Court case on the failure to serve a claim notice, High Court decisions on an application for an injunction to restrain the sale of properties and cases involving common intention constructive trusts.

This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: a Court of Appeal decision on the Party Wall etc Act 1996, High Court decisions on misrepresentation in particulars of sale and on adverse possession, and Upper Tribunal decisions on forfeiture, Code agreements, service charges and variation of rent. It also covers the Building Safety Act 2022 (Commencement No 4, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2024.

This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: the draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill and accompanying consultation on banning leasehold flats, High Court decisions on occupiers’ liability and proprietary estoppel, Upper Tribunal decisions on service charge liability, and recent First-tier Tribunal decisions on building safety.

This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: High Court decisions that a landlord is not entitled to recover insurance rent corresponding to commission rebates, mortgage rights in the context of the doctrine of marshalling in a sale of land dispute, granting an injunction renewal against unauthorised encampments, granting injunctive relief to restrain unlawful protests and guidance on third party rights in the context of section 1 of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999. It also includes a Court of Appeal judgment concerning the scope of an agricultural exemption from business rates for buildings used for packaging eggs, and an Upper Tribunal decision concerning modification of a restrictive covenant.

This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: Budget 2026 key Property announcements, a High Court decision concerning the enforceability of contractual rights over Swiss land notwithstanding an option’s invalidity under Swiss law and an Upper Tribunal decision regarding the validity of a landlord’s rent-increase notice and market-rent determination. It also includes an Upper Tribunal decision concerning the qualifying-work test for agricultural tenancy succession.

This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: a Court of Appeal decision on residential service charges, Upper Tribunal decisions concerning the jurisdiction to vary management orders, an application for first registration of land based on adverse possession, and a rating case on property incapable of beneficial occupation, and High Court decisions concerning the personal nature of the appointment of a receiver, and enforcement of a non-moratorium debt during a moratorium period. It also includes an analysis of the first-ever building liability order and information orders awarded under the Building Safety Act 2022 and the HM Courts and Tribunals Service announcement of the centralisation of combined writ of control applications to the Civil National Business Centre.

This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: a Court of Appeal decision that a landlord should not have brought forfeiture proceedings due to the terms of an earlier settlement agreement, analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision in Waller Edwards v One Savings Bank, a High Court case where a trustee in bankruptcy was granted an order for possession and sale of a jointly-owned property and the publication of draft guidance and consultation responses on the implementation of Awaab's Law.

This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: commentary on the Renters’ Rights Bill, High Court decisions on an expert determination clause and possession against protestors, County Court cases involving a trustee’s application for a declaration as to beneficial ownership and an application for permission to bring a claim without a named defendant pursuant to CPR r 8.2A, and an Upper Tribunal decision on strike-out of a case in the First—tier Tribunal.

This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: a Supreme Court decision on the effect on an RTM claim of failure to serve notice of invitation to participate, the publication of a draft practice direction for online possession proceedings, a Court of Appeal decision on a rates mitigation scheme, a High Court decision on suspension of a possession order, and Upper Tribunal decisions on the RTM costs regime and revocation of waiver of breach of covenant.