Landlord, Tenant and Property

• Fencing Disrepair Blocks Lease Termination

  • Posted20 March 2015

  Tenants are required to comply with the covenants in their leases and breaches of lease covenants can have serious implications, as a recent case shows. It involved a tenant...

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• Contractor Liable When Shoddy Work Makes Flats Unfit for Human Habitation

  • Posted6 March 2015

  The risks associated with buying ‘off plan’ are illustrated by a recent case in which the owners of more than 100 flats in two blocks in Leeds found themselves facing...

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• Rights to Light – Proposed Changes in the Law

  • Posted20 February 2015

  The right to light has always been a complex and confusing area of law in the UK. In order to bring more certainty to the subject, the Law Commission undertook...

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• Judge Blocks Out-of-Town Superstore Plans

  • Posted6 February 2015

  A council’s decision to grant planning consent for a superstore has been countermanded for a second time by the High Court on the ground that the potentially ‘crippling’ impact on...

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• Property Dispute Imposes Heavy Cost Penalty for Couple

  • Posted15 January 2015

  A recent claim for negligence against a firm of architects, which resulted in a five-day court hearing, has led to a couple rueing their decision to litigate a dispute. ...

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• Negligent Valuation Produced Instant Loss, Rules Court

  • Posted8 January 2015

  When a firm of valuers placed a valuation of €135 million on a property in Germany in 2005, in connection with a complex refinancing package, and it subsequently turned out...

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