Q The owner of a house fronting a street erects a fence near the edge of his front garden, thus leaving a strip between the fence and the street.
As explained in our note on National Westminster Bank v Jones [2000] EGCS 82, see PP 2000/65, it is far from easy to persuade a court that a transaction, that…
Disputes about the operation of the Land Registration Act 1925 continue to stray into uncharted areas. The puzzle posed in Habermann v Koehler [2000] EGCS 125 arose out of the…
It will be recalled (or not, as the case may be) that, under a power going back to Lord Cairns’ Act 1858 (see now section 50 of the Supreme Court…
If engaged to support or to oppose a proposal for an out-of-town or edge-of-centre superstore, you will find, at the very least, a useful background read in R v South…
Many of us can work quite happily in a noisy environment, yet still be driven bananas when a particular sound — be it a chronic sniff or the whistling of…
Unlike assured tenants, the many thousands of tenants who occupy their homes under the Rent Act 1977 will, with very few exceptions, owe their security to statutory tenancies that arose…
A notorious instance of being punished for doing someone a favour can arise when L renews a lease or sells and conveys the reversion to T.
“The principle that underlies rule 6A is that it is wrong for a seller to deal simultaneously with more than one potential buyer, unless each of the buyers is made…
A tenant who gets a nasty surprise at rent review may find, to his great relief, that his lease gives him an option to break, exercisable within a month or…
Put yourself in the position of a bank that has taken a mortgage over a jointly owned matrimonial home as security for the business indebtedness of the now insolvent H.