Listed building consent – Extent of listing – Application for consent to remove second world war pillbox fortification in curtilage of listed farmhouse – Consent refused – Application to court…
Town and country planning – Listed building
Professional negligence – Surveyor – Damages – Claimants seeking damages for negligence – Claimants refusing to mediate – Claimants succeeding to limited extent and claiming costs – Defendant alleging unreasonable…
Civil procedure, Costs
Lease – Business premises – Claimant letting part of four floors to defendant – Four separate leases setting out procedures for payment of service charge – Defendant paying service charge…
Landlord and tenant – Service charges
Business lease – Rent – Parking – Parties negotiating new lease – Tenant giving up designated parking inside building for outside spaces – Rent being reduced – Parking problems ensuing…
Landlord and tenant – Lease
Damages – Contributory negligence – Apportionment – Claimant solicitor settling negligence claim by client – Claimant seeking contribution from defendant counsel – Whether defendants breaching duty of care – Whether…
Solicitor – Professional negligence
Lease – Rent review – Landlord challenging arbitrator’s award – Section 68(2) of Arbitration Act 1996 – Whether serious procedural irregularities justifying remittance of award for reconsideration – Application dismissed
Negligence – Planning consultant – Claimant retaining defendant planning consultant in connection with retail development – Planning permission requiring submission of landscaping scheme before works commencing – No scheme submitted…