Practice point
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PP 2002/164
Extension rights extended. Good news for many flat owners. On 26 July 2002, sections 129-133 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 were brought into force.
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PP 2002/162
With more than 8,000 conservation areas designated under section 69 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, there is every reason for developers and others to welcome…
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PP 2002/161
Squatter’s intentions need not be hostile. The required mental element (animus possidendi) that goes into conduct amounting to adverse possession for the purpose of the Limitation Act 1980 has been…
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PP 2002/160
On or beyond the fringe of the retainer?. A solicitor (or other professional) is instructed to takes steps A, B and C that are required by a clause in a…
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PP 2002/157
All eyes on the block. Flat dwellers, minded to get together to acquire the freehold of the block, will find much to their liking in amendments made by the Commonhold…
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PP 2002/158
Making a leasehold security more secure. Fresh light has been thrown on the law of forfeiture by Dorian Brunt, of Eversheds, who looks at the whole thing through the eyes…
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PP 2002/156
Togetherness in bedsit land. Q My six-bedroom house is no longer needed for family accommodation, but I would like to keep it as an investment property.
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PP 2002/155
Residence loses business link. Q Some nine years ago, we granted a 14-year, full-repairing lease of a shop with a flat above, the use of the flat being restricted to…
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PP 2002/153
A breathing space must allow for a full breath. Where a challenge to a planning related decision has to be made by way of application for judicial review, the aggrieved…
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PP 2002/150
More than one rung on the ladder. The exercise of a right, under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, to obtain a 90-year extension to a lease…
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PP 2002/152
Valuable survey findings. For the purpose of proceedings in public as well as in private nuisance, the legal test for an unacceptable noise level is easy to state.
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PP 2002/151
Diving in, or being dragged in?. A relatively seamless transfer of responsibilities from property professionals to the solicitors appointed by the parties is one of the possible features of the…