Practice point
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PP 2002/58
An architect designs a building under contract with A, who subsequently sells or lets the building to B. A serious design defect has just come to light, and B is…
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PP 2002/64
The boundaries between private nuisance, public nuisance and negligence have been notoriously difficult to trace, although some clarification has been achieved by the House of Lords decision in Hunter v…
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PP 2002/62
A small price to pay for living in an earthquake-free zone is the paucity of case law on naturally occurring landslips.
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PP 2002/63
Where an easement has been acquired by prescription, then, with the possible exception of rights of way, even a radical change in the nature of the dominant tenement will not…
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PP 2002/67
Q Your summary of Rees v Skerret [2001] EWCA Civ 760 [2001] 3 EGLR 1 (cf the full report at [2001] 40 EG 163), records a successful claim for weather…
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PP 2002/55
More difficult to predict than a winning Eurovision song is the outcome of litigation over whether a right to break a lease has been validly exercised.
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PP 2002/56
Tenancy granted before 28 February 1997 – Section 20 Housing Act 1988 – Whether pre-grant notice sufficiently compliant with Assured Tenancies and Agricultural Occupancies (Forms) Regulations 1988.
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PP 2002/54
A quick reading of replies to standard enquiries relating to building consents may indicate that there is nothing more to investigate.
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PP 2002/53
In times of recession, the last thing a commercial landlord wants to do is to behave in such a way that the tenant can claim that the lease has been…
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PP 2002/42
Free from the statutory constraints applicable to residential lettings, the landlord of an office block in multi–occupation may seek to operate the service charge provisions in such way that the…
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PP 2002/39
(1) T disadvantaged by subsequent lettings in same parade or precinct. Anyone subjected to a course in landlord and tenant law will sooner or later come across Port v Griffith…