Practice point
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PP 2002/69
Council tenants are reminded that a design defect many not amount to disrepair. Newcomers to the law of dilapidations are frequently surprised to learn that, notwithstanding the discomfort experienced by…
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PP 2002/115
Business leases overview, May 2002. In a busy office, many law reform proposals can be safely put aside until such time as they come to fruition.
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PP 2002/114
Lender failing to ensure that wife properly advised. The prospects of a mortgagor raising a so-called O’Brien defence (explained in PP 2001/59) may well have dimmed since the House of…
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PP 2002/112
Reconciling contractual and statutory provisions. Perusing a draft lease? Well there may be another item to add to that ever-expanding check list: the notice service provisions.
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PP 2002/111
Q A company tenant goes into liquidation. What are the landlord’s chances of recovering the full rent falling due thereafter? .
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PP 2002/110
Comparative leasehold systems. Q I need a snapshot of the major differences between Continental leasehold systems and our own. Do I have to go on some overpriced course? .
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PP 2002/109
Only one lessee in the market. When it comes to disregards, there is a striking difference between: (a) the fixing of a rent at rent review; and (b) its determination…
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PP 2002/106
Streamlining hearings before arbitrator. Writing in Estates Gazette, leading landlord and tenant silk, Jonathan Gaunt QC, of Falcon Chambers, makes a strong case for a procedure whereby, prior to a…
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PP 2002/107
V and P make a deal that involves the sale or lease of V’s land to P. The formalities required by section 2 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions)…
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PP 2002/98
Old mineral-working permission – Determination of conditions. If you are not wholly familiar with Schedule 13 to the Environment Act 1995, entitled “Review of Old Mineral Planning Permissions”, then the…
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PP 2002/100
Solicitor failing to attend to matters of title – Failure and other factors disabling claimant from selling – Value of property rising in meantime – Causation .
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PP 2002/102
Extent to which servient owner free to develop. Where a large landowner reserves sporting rights over a fringe area that has been conveyed away, the conveyance should ideally spell out…