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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
This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: the MHCLG consultation on an exemption from the ground rent cap, High Court...
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has announced an extension of the existing cladding safety scheme to buildings under...
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has updated its Tenant Fees Act 2019 guidance for landlords and tenants to address...
The Home Office and UK Visas and Immigration have added updated versions of two codes of practice under the right to rent scheme, both of which come...
HM Land Registry (HMLR) has updated Practice Guide 26—Leases: determination. Sections 7 and 10 have been amended to address circumstances where a...
Latest Property Disputes Practice Notes
The Property case tracker is a list of key judgments from 2026 which we consider relevant to property lawyers. Cases are listed in reverse...
Once a development occurs, it is then moved to the relevant archive:•Property key future developments tracker—2026 archive•Property key future...
Japanese knotweed locationsJapanese knotweed can be found almost all over the country. It can readily grow in nutrient-poor or contaminated soils,...
This Practice Note considers pre-action conduct in ordinary and commercial civil disputes in Scotland. For guidance on:•pre-action conduct in Scottish...
This Practice Note considers how to apply for an order for sale to enforce a charging order pursuant to CPR 73.10C.This Practice Note provides...
Latest Property Disputes Precedents
The response to a quantified demand under the Dilapidations pre-action protocol is case specific, but the following notes will assist you through the...
The Pre-action Protocol for Claims for Damages in Relation to the Physical State of Commercial Property at Termination of a Tenancy (the...
date [date]Parties1[name of Landlord] [of OR incorporated in England and Wales (company registration number [number]) whose registered office is at]...
This section 21 notice (Form 6A) is for use in terminating assured shorthold tenancies (ASTs) under section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 (HA 1988).From...
TO: [insert full name of tenant] of [insert address] (the ‘Tenant’) [and [insert full name of recognised tenant’s association] of [insert address]...
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.
Lease renewal
A business lease renewal, pursuant to LTA 1954.
Mannai
The case of Mannai v Eagle Star [1997] 3 All ER 352, in which the House of Lords (as was) confirmed that a mistake in a contractual break notice was not fatal to its validity, as the reasonable recipient would not be misled by the error.
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