Practice point
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PP 2002/147
You don’t have to tell a lie to break a contract. Depending upon how things went wrong, a claim against another party to a contract may be based upon breach…
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PP 2002/145
Groundwork to be done before applying the Human Rights Act 1998. Regardless of any human rights issue, disputes arising between the occupier of a mobile home and the owner of…
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PP 2002/144
Q In a survey carried out last year, my firm failed to report certain defects that admittedly should have been reported.
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PP 2002/143
Lock-out agreements. Quite understandably, most accounts of lock-out agreements are directed at the gazumphobic buyer: see, for example, Lock-outs: the purchaser’s remedy Estates Gazette 8 November 1997.
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PP 2002/142
A contractual right of entry may not go far enough. A landlord wishing to refurbish a residential block, but who cannot do so without access to one or more of…
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PP 2002/140
As the 2002 Wimbledon tournament unfolds, it can be recorded that the Lord Chancellor, having served (underhand or otherwise) a number of proposals in two consultation papers, has now fielded…
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PP 2002/139
Use for land other than dominant tenement. The rule that a right of way or other easement over Blackacre has to “accommodate” an identifiable dominant tenement (Whiteacre) comes under particular…
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PP 2002/137
Receipt of rents and profits. Q Your summary of UCB Group Ltd v Hedworth [2002] 23 EG 122 (CS) came as something of a surprise.
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PP 2002/138
How things are done north of the border. Where do you go to find: a planning system just like ours; a purely contract-based regime for business lettings; the specific enforcement…
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PP 2002/131
Q We are anxious to sublet a warehouse building that we took a few years ago on a long lease. Unfortunately, the lease requires that any subletting should, so far…