Features

by Ian Gatenby. It is commonplace for citizens to be faced with public authorities who are given a statutory discretion in relation to some matter.

by Steven Faull. Revelations that Westminster City Council sold three cemetery sites for just 15p are still sending shock waves through the property world.

by Delyth Williams. Litigation on the scope and operation of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, Part II continues unabated, with many of the cases being reported in the columns…

by Tony Gregory. For a few brief days in January both the national and Yorkshire media had a field-day as archaeologists of the York Archaeological Trust working on the site…

by Steven Fogel and Graham Plumbe. Many landlords and tenants have been exploring with their advisers whether the impact of the new VAT rules upon rental values on review may…

How is the system of raising revenue for the financing of local government services being changed and what effect will this have on the property market?.

by Cecil Bounsall. Many people buy property with the aid of loans raised outside the UK, but few of them have probably ever heard of sections 52, 53 and 54…

by Anthony Bowhill. As from April 1 1989, chartered surveyors have direct access to counsel. This now means that they can instruct and brief a barrister without the necessity of…

by Ian Rowson. In recent years vast tracts of derelict wastelands on the north and south banks of the River Thames have been transformed, and nowhere has this transformation been…

by David Rothenberg. One of the manifest injustices of the United Kingdom capital gains tax system is the “double charge” which arises if assets are held in a limited company.

by Delyth Williams. With the exception of the area of rent review, perhaps no field of landlord and tenant law poses more practical and legal problems for the busy practitioner…

by Martin Davey. This article examines what Slade LJ recently described in Stephens v Anglian Water Authority [7] 3 All ER 379 at p380 as a “short but not unimportant…