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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
The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary (CATJ) has published a speech by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls, delivered on 4 December 2025 at the Housing...
Senedd Research has published analysis of the Building Safety (Wales) Bill, which creates a broader building safety regime than England's Building...
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) have launched a joint call for evidence on the...
This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: Upper Tribunal decisions concerning lease interpretation issues and the...
The House of Lords Library has published a briefing on the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, which has now completed its third...
Latest Property Disputes Practice Notes
Renters' Rights Act 2025—key provisionsThis Practice Note sets out a broad summary of the main changes to residential tenancies to be made by the...
Consultation for residential service chargesOverview of consultation processThe following flowchart gives a basic outline of the points to consider...
Mortgages and land—enforcement of mortgages and legal charges over landIntroductionThis Practice Note looks at the options available to a lender who...
Property key future developments trackerOnce a development occurs, it is then moved to the relevant archive:•Property key future developments...
Liquidators disclaiming contracts containing overageThis Practice Note considers the disclaimer by liquidators of contracts (often a sale agreement or...
Latest Property Disputes Precedents
Letter of claim—contractual debt claim—in compliance with the Pre-Action Protocol for Debt Claims[On the headed notepaper of the creditor’s...
Notice of tenant's claim against a landlord which has a right to retain property for public purposes—section 28(1)(b)(ii)—house enfranchisement and...
Section 21 noticeFORTHCOMING CHANGE: The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 27 October 2025. For guidance regarding the Act’s impact on...
Authorised guarantee agreementDate: [date]Parties1[name of Landlord] [of OR incorporated in England and Wales (company registration number [number])...
Notice of tenant’s claim to acquire the freehold or an extended lease—house enfranchisement or lease extension (LRA 1967)LEASEHOLD REFORM,...
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
Section 18
Section 18 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927. This operates as a statutory cap on the amount of damages which a landlord can recover from a tenant at the end of a lease term in respect of dilapidations.
Statutory compensation
Compensation which is payable to a tenant where a landlord successfully opposes the grant of a new tenancy based on grounds (e), (f) and/or (g) of LTA 1954, s 30(1).
Torts Notice
Notice served pursuant to the Torts (Interference with Goods) Act 1977, where goods have been left behind at lease expiry (commonly following forfeiture). It imposes an obligation on a former tenant to collect the goods and allows the landlord to sell the goods, if the tenant fails to do so.
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