Practice point
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PP 2000/93
You attend an auction, having been given to understand that there is no reserve price on the lot you have your eye on.
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PP 2000/90
If negligence, in the legal sense, is treated as a risk, rather than a moral failing, it has to be because the hypothetical reasonable practitioner (who never needs an aspirin,…
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PP 2000/87
The right of a business tenant to claim compensation where the landlord can rely upon certain specific grounds for opposing a statutory renewal is hedged with a number of technicalities,…
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PP 2000/86
Under the title CLEUD-up in planning, Estates Gazette 9 September 2000, p162, Martin Edwards and John Martin review the significant advantages of applying for a CLEUD rather than seeking the…
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PP 2000/89
While observing that none of the rights that are expressly protected by the ECHR refer specifically to the environment, David Short, a solicitor with CMS Cameron McKenna, demonstrates that the…
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PP 2000/88
A review of the main legal tools available for the regeneration of brownfield sites. Large areas, left derelict with the decline of our heavy industry, are “a wasted resource that…
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PP 2000/16
Any thought that the Human Rights Act 1998 can be safely filed away under “basic civil liberties” will be swiftly dispelled by A reading of the Rights Act Estates Gazette…
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PP 2000/77
Jane, a private citizen, maintains that the activities of a company amount to a statutory nuisance for the purpose of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
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PP 2000/139
Q A purchaser’s solicitor, who is required to remit a large part of the purchase price to the vendor’s mortgagee, pays the entire price to the vendor’s solicitor against an…
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PP 2000/83
Assessing which way a court may jump – a tricky number at the best of times – can be particularly difficult when the outcome lies in the judge’s discretion.
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PP 2000/74
When a rent review clause falls to be construed by the courts, then, more often than not, one party will contend that a literal interpretation would give an unforeseen and…
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PP 2000/85
It is not easy to persuade an appellate court to overturn a judgment when it was made, in the court below, in the exercise of a judicial discretion.