Legal notes
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Proprietary estoppel: what you should know
A case raises familiar issues over the extent of the doctrine of estoppel
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Multiple rent repayment orders for multiple offences?
Elizabeth Dwomoh looks at a recent rent repayment order decision
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Can a landlord grant a lease to himself and another party?
Analysis of a Court of Appeal decision on the complicated ownership of a family farm
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Not dead-locked in Chancery
Allyson Colby analyses an unusual adverse possession claim
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A quay-note judgment
Allyson Colby explains how a working port can be recognised as a village green
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Negligently failing to spot what no one could see
Why a seemingly surprising outcome does no more than state the normal law of damages
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Not waiving, forfeiting
Allyson Colby analyses a tricky case on forfeiture relating to a café
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Jurisdiction in apportionment of service charges
A degree of flexibility in the apportionment of service charges is possible, writes Elizabeth Dwomoh
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Landlord and tenant: ‘breeches’ of covenant
A racehorse trainer’s bid to renew a business tenancy was a non-starter at the High Court
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Leasehold reform: Qualification and invitation
Clarity in acquiring the management of buildings occupied by shared ownership & social rent tenants
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Business interruption insurance: Hats off to the Supreme Court
Stuart Pemble is inspired by the Supreme Court’s erudition, decency and speedy dispute resolution
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What’s in a signature?
Elizabeth Dwomoh looks at a case in which residential landlord-and-tenant and company law collide