Sarah Jackman

The Tenant Services Authority (TSA) and Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) are on course to become “fully operational” by April 2010.

Lovells’ planning specialist, Michael Gallimore, has been named top planning solicitor in England and Wales according to Planning magazine’s annual survey.

James Salford is to join Addleshaw Goddard’s London-based real estate finance group. Salford, who joins from Berwin Leighton Paisner, where he was a senior associate, has a wide range of…

Berwin Leighton Paisner has, for the second consecutive year, been voted the industry’s top planning law firm in Planning magazine’s annual survey.

Estates Gazette has teamed up with the Property Litigation Association (PLA) to launch an essay competition. The contest, which commands a bursary of £1,000, is open to association members with…

The new Land Registration Fee Order 2006 (SI 2006/No 1332), which will increase the fees for searches, official copies and inspections, has been laid before parliament.

The Land Registry has confirmed the launch date for the e-conveyancing pilot as October 2007. The launch has been timed to coincide with the annual quiet period for domestic house…

The government has laid proposals before parliament that will provide a more flexible framework for agricultural lettings. The changes, which will amend the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 and the Agriculture…

Sir David Neuberger has expressed concern that the government’s intended 10% reduction in the court budget will result in “unacceptable” cuts at the “sharp end”.

Neuberger LJ has challenged the established requirement that expert witnesses be independent and unbiased. Sir David suggested that it is against human nature to expect experts, with their inevitable client…

The Lord Chancellor has appointed five new members to the Lands Tribunal, taking its current membership to nine. The Tribunal, headed by president George Bartlett QC, now includes:.