Landlord, Tenant and Property

• Fairness Demands Transparent Decision-Making – High Court Planning Case

  • Posted24 August 2020

  Planning decisions can radically affect people’s lives and livelihoods and that is why they have to be taken openly and transparently. The High Court made that point in overturning planning...

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• Advance Contractual Payments and the Benefits of Bank Guarantees

  • Posted7 August 2020

  Contracts often require payments for services to be made in advance in order to get the ball rolling and provide liquidity, but this gives rise to obvious risks. An instructive...

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• Flat Tenant Can Veto Potentially Destructive Works – Supreme Court Ruling

  • Posted22 July 2020

  The freeholds of a great many blocks of flats are held by tenant-owned companies which operate on democratic principles. Such arrangements are, however, not a panacea and disagreements can arise....

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• Warehouse Torched By Rioters – Owner of Destroyed Stock Wins £5 Million

  • Posted10 July 2020

  Civil unrest is thankfully rare in Britain, but it does occur and anyone who suffers loss as a result should contact a solicitor without delay. In a case on point,...

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• Infrastructure Projects and Access to Private Land – High Court Test Case

  • Posted24 June 2020

  Public authorities engaged in nationally significant infrastructure projects have the power to enter private land to carry out necessary surveys. An important High Court ruling in the context of the...

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• Tenants Win Right to Acquire Subsoil and Airspace in Guideline Case

  • Posted9 June 2020

  Qualifying apartment dwellers have a right to acquire the freehold of the buildings where they live, but does that extend to the subsoil beneath the premises and the airspace above?...

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