Features

by Patrick Robinson. Landowners may be totally unaware that their land benefits from valuable planning permissions to extract minerals. Conversely, home owners may have unwittingly bought houses close to land…

by Michael Dore. On the sale of freehold land with long-term development potential, but no immediate prospect of the grant of planning permission, a vendor may wish to reserve the…

by W H Rees. The correspondence column of Estates Gazette has recently included numerous references to the position of the expert witness.

by Marc Selby. Tucked away, in some amendments to the VAT (General) Regulations 1985, which came into effect on April 1 1990, is a section headed “Part VA — Adjustments…

by Professor John Adams. The Rights of Access to Neighbouring Land Bill, based almost entirely on an eponymous Law Commission Report of 1985, passed all its stages in the Commons…

The Citizen’s Charter has important implications for all citizens across the whole range of public services and in relation to the privatised public utilities.

by Paul Graves and Stewart Ross. In the 1960s and 1970s the designation of a locality as a conservation area indicated that it possessed a discernible quality which set it…

by Tim Herbert-Smith. It has now been over 18 months since the Companies Act 1989 received the Royal Assent. As befits a statute which was described in Parliament as “a…

by J Lindsay Thomas. Following the recent furore arising from the glaringly contradictory valuations of the Scotts’ restaurant properties, various comments have appeared in the professional press complaining about the…

Value added tax was introduced in the UK in 1973 to replace purchase tax as a consequence of Britain’s EC membership.

by John Furnival. The nation is in one of the deeper recessions which many of us involved in business can remember.

by J Muir Watt. During the past year, since the last article appeared on August 11 1990 at p 26, there have been a number of cases of interest, one…