Practice point
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PP 2002/207
Duty to have regard to previous decisions. Challenges to planning decisions are frequently based on the ground that the decision maker has failed to have any, or any sufficient, regard…
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PP 2002/206
Terms of main contract may preclude contribution claim. When taking out insurance cover, a party to a building contract, say an architect or civil engineer, should consider the possibility that…
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PP 2002/203
Busy times ahead for LVTs. Rushing off to the wrong court is hardly the best way to implement a threat to take proceedings.
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PP 2002/202
Q When appointed receiver of mortgaged properties, my company is frequently engaged to attend to their sale. In what circumstances would we be answerable to the borrower mortgagor for allegedly…
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PP 2002/204
Statutory regime leaves developers in the dark. As indicated in PP 2000/36, the statutory rules for allocating responsibility for contaminated land present serious pitfalls for developers and other buyers.
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PP 2002/205
Swallow your pride and make a check list. Knowledge and experience cannot provide a perfect safeguard against overlooking something that you would have instinctively attended to on one of your…
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PP 2002/201
A hostile reception for standard-form registrable leases. The current (unreformed) land registration regime requires the registration of leases granted for a term of more than 21 years.
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PP 2002/199
Developing the Land Registration regulations. It is no secret that the full impact of the Land Registration Act 2002 will not be felt until the relevant regulations have been hammered…
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PP 2002/184
Asbestos – now for the legal anxieties. To be introduced in October 2002, tough new rules aimed at reducing the risk of exposure to asbestos will, among other things, require…
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PP 2002/198
Is time running out for the institutional lease?. Your client plans to open a shop in the high street. The business plan is sound, but he is well aware that…
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PP 2002/196
Offloading unwanted, over-rented office space. In a time of falling rental levels, for offices in particular, a tenant who is anxious to sublet may rue the day that he agreed…