Legal Q&A
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Legal Q&A: service contract terms
What approach will the court now take to interpreting and implying contract terms?
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Q&A: Have I given vacant possession?
Lauren Fraser and Edward Francis address the impact of tenant’s fixtures on break options
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Q&A: Assessing damages in complex scenarios
David Peachey and Jeremy Hudson answer questions on proprietary estoppel
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Q&A: Forfeiture – the tenant’s perspective
How can an evicted tenant obtain relief from forfeiture?
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Q&A: Applying for relief from forfeiture
Robert Highmore and James Davies address the circumstances where the court may grant relief from forfeiture
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Q&A: Penalties fit for fit-out?
How the law of penalties and relief from forfeiture apply to a tenant who fails to complete fit-out works by an agreed date
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Q&A: Sharing out service charge
Jennifer Meech and Edward Williams detail the requirements for managers to achieve value for money and explain how service charge is divided
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Q&A: Determining negligence in a valuation
Bernard Weatherill QC and Lauren Fraser explain when damages may be claimed
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Q&A: No such thing as a free lunch
Richard Bourchier invites Nicholas Cheffings to lunch to explain the use of the term “without prejudice” on correspondence or during verbal negotiations
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Q&A: Refusing requests to assign or sublet
Emma Humphreys and James Pickering consider when landlords can say no to requests to assign or sublet
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Q&A: competing restrictions
Charles Morgan and Jessica McGoldrick consider how competition law could trump restrictions in a retail lease that prevent overlapping trades in a parade of shops
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Q&A: timely consent to assign
Georgina Redsell and Jennifer Meech answer a question on assignment of a lease