Features

by Lawrance Heller. Lawyers and agents beware! A new Act has crept on to the statute books, largely unnoticed and unappreciated.

by Delyth Williams. Unlike the question of service charges in commercial premises, dealt with by the author in an article entitled “Service Charges in Commercial Premises” [9] 45 EG 24,…

To what extent is radon gas present in dwellings in the UK? What is the risk to occupants and are there remedial measures available?.

by Colin Bird. During the last 200 years, over 26 fixed-link schemes have been proposed for the English Channel, none of which succeeded.

by Martin Avis, Virginia Gibson, Jenny Watts. Managing Operational Property Assets(*), published in November, was the culmination of 18 months’ work studying major owners and users of property for whom…

The conclusion of the Court of Appeal led by Browne-Wilkinson V-C in April 1987 that a surety’s covenant passed the Rogers v Hosegood test and was enforceable by an assignee…

by Peter McCarthy. Many years ago I wrote a paper extolling the virtues of partnership developments, and since then partnerships and joint ventures have become slightly more popular: nevertheless they…

Following the dissolution of the monasteries, the statute of 32 Henry 8, cap 34, now variously called the Grantees of Reversions Act or the Covenants Act 1540, was passed to…

How does the system of “section 25 notices” and “counternotices” operate, and what are the pitfalls for the landlord and tenant?.

by Philip Barron. Fierce competition in the residential estate agency world has made it necessary for firms to pay more attention to public relations.

by Simon Hardwick. Is your lawyer a functionary whom you call on merely to generate lengthy and obtuse documents? Or is he an evil necessity for when things go wrong?…

by Allan Ramsay. Whenever I meet other architects nowadays the topic of conversation very often turns to the subject of professional indemnity insurance.