Service charges
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Service charges: implied repairing obligations do not prohibit recovery of costs of lift repairs
Section 11 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 does not prohibit a landlord recovering the costs of maintaining a lift under service charge provisions
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Service charges: the reasonableness of costs
The standard that should be applied when determining service charge costs
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Commercial service charges: a “pay now, argue later” regime
A landlord’s certificate as to the service charge payable by its commercial tenant is conclusive…
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Supreme Court provides alternative remedy in service charge dispute
Court disagrees with both claimant’s and defendant’s interpretation
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Service charge: procedural fairness
The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has again highlighted the perils of determining disputed issues…
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Service charges: liability for repairs to a horizontal concrete roof slab
In Tann v Bhundia and others, the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) was asked to determine the extent…
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Service charges: jurisdictional limitations of FTT under section 24A of the LTA 1985
The First-tier Tribunal has jurisdiction to determine whether service charges are reasonable and…
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Service charges: the purpose of section 20B
Section 20B(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 provides that a lessee is not liable to pay…
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Service charges: if you don’t ask you don’t get
Service charges that are not validly demanded are not payable by the lessee
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Service charges: validity of demands for insurance rent and reasonableness
Pursuant to the terms of a tenant’s lease, the landlord is required to serve a notice on the tenant…
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Service charges: ‘eye-watering’ legal costs not recoverable under service charge provision of the lease
In Dell and another v 89 Holland Park (Management) Ltd, the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has sent…
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Service charges: recoverability of contractual costs
In Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets v Khan, the Court of Appeal has…