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Landlord, Tenant and Property
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Contract adjudications can provide a swift and cost-effective alternative to litigation. Adjudication decisions are not immune from error but, as a High Court case showed, they are meant to be...
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Planning decisions would be unpredictable and merely arbitrary if they were not based on carefully considered policies that have been subjected to public scrutiny. The High Court made that point...
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Talk to a tenant and the lack of security of tenure is often brought up as a significant issue. For landlords, the inability easily to obtain possession of a tenanted...
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Gerry Rafferty famously claimed that ‘if you get it wrong, you’ll get it right next time’, but a recent construction dispute shows that this is often far from true in...
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It is very common for tenants who run up rent arrears to effectively be given a second chance by the courts when facing an application by the landlord to repossess...
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Whether land is or is not within the curtilage of a building can be a decisive factor in many planning cases. The High Court considered the meaning of the word...
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