Practice point
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PP 2003/77
Obtaining rent from tenants in administration can sometimes be like trying to extract blood from a stone. The insolvency provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002, which came into force on…
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PP 2003/76
While parties in more adversarial types of litigation have made the most of settlement offers under CPR Part 36, many still question whether such an offer would be helpful when…
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PP 2003/74
Price payable for freehold – Valuation – Disregard of lessee’s improvements – Earlier lessees converting house into five flatlets – Later lessees adding value by undoing the conversion.
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PP 2003/75
A key provision of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) came into force on 1 October 2003. The provision means that service providers may have to make “reasonable adjustments” to…
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PP 2002/123
Non-feasance – failure to act – public utilities. Something affects Blackacre that, over a period of time, causes that property to pose a threat to Whiteacre.
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PP 2003/73
Tenants may find themselves out of pocket when the stamp duty land tax (SDLT) regime comes into force on 1 December.
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PP 2003/35
A low hurdle for the claimant. If restrictive covenants are frequently likened to negative easements, it is mainly because the claimant has to point to a property that is capable…
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PP 2003/72
Lawyers do not have a good track record when it comes to plans. The Court of Appeal has been required to scrutinise a number of their attempts to illustrate property…
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PP 2003/71
A recent departure from reality by the Court of Appeal could leave tenants paying over the odds when it comes to rent reviews.
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PP 2003/69
TUPE, or the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981, is a complicated piece of legislation that property investors/buyers etc need to know about.
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PP 2003/70
A landlord is given a mandatory ground for opposing its tenant’s renewal application if it can show that it wishes to redevelop the property: section 30(1)(f) of the Landlord and…
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PP 2003/68
In Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group plc v Commissioners of Customs & Excise [2003] UKHL 29; [2003] 23 EG 134 (CS), a split House of Lords allowed the commissioners’…