12 January 2016
Recent decisions on the overpayment of rent and property search results, as well as changes in Land Registry practice, highlight the importance of the property practitioner’s role, write Anthony Goodmaker, Emilie Hobday, and Miri Stickland.
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30 October 2015
Charlotte Ross explores a case concerning forfeiture of a head lease where the court refused to grant relief.
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28 October 2015
As public awareness of fracking is rising, James Noble offers guidance to practitioners on identifying and advising on the potential risks for property owners.
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12 October 2015
The recent divorce case of Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton of All Saints fame, has thrown the issues of publicity and the press in the family courts into the spotlight.
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5 October 2015
Natasha Rees considers a case where precarious rights in leases and the test of the equivalence as set out in the 1993 Act came under the spotlight.
This article was first published in Property Law Journal issue 335 (October 2015).
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24 September 2015
From 1 October 2015 the Deregulation Act provisions relating to retaliatory evictions will come into force.
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22 September 2015
To what length and at what point should trustees become involved in a divorce settlement involving a member of their trust.
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7 September 2015
Zahra Kanani looks at the lessons to be learned from NHS Foundation Trust v Mrs X [2014], which marks a shift in the court's attitute to 'the right to life'.
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17 August 2015
Judgment was handed down on 16 January 2015 in the Chancery case of Thwaytes v Sotheby's, in which Sotheby's was held not to have been negligent in its assessment of a painting.
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12 August 2015
On any commercial property transaction that requires financing or refinancing, a secured lender will usually require a letter from the borrower's insurance broker as a condition to drawdown.
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