Residential Property

• Council Not Liable for Tree Roots Subsidence

  • Posted10 January 2013

  A property owner whose Victorian townhouse was severely affected by subsidence has failed to convince the Court of Appeal that the local authority and a housing association (the respondents) should...

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• Reasonable Decision Confirmed by Court of Appeal in House Defects Case

  • Posted19 December 2012

  When the owners of houses that were built on piles discovered that the walls of their properties were cracking, they established that the reason for the problem was that the...

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• Developer Stymied in Attempt to Move Allocated Parking

  • Posted7 December 2012

  When the developer of a block of flats (who owned the freehold) decided to relocate the parking spaces allocated to the tenants so that it could build another block of...

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• Rights of Way and Their Extent

  • Posted21 November 2012

  It is common for rights of way over property to be reserved if the seller retains other land in the vicinity of the sold land to which he wishes to...

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• Supreme Court Rules That Daughter Cannot Claim Tenancy

  • Posted7 November 2012

  The Supreme Court has ruled that a daughter cannot succeed to a tenancy after the death of her mother because the right of succession belongs to her estranged father. ...

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• Agreement Set Aside When Only One Side Meets Obligations

  • Posted19 October 2012

  When two young men who were friends and sometime business associates decided to buy a flat together in 1997, they arranged it so that the property was registered in the...

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