Legal
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Mainly for students: Property insurance – know the facts
Elizabeth Thomson looks at the importance of being well informed about property insurance
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Medway Council v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Town and country planning – Planning agreement – Affordable housing – Town and Country Planning Act 1990 – Local authority granting planning permission for mixed-use development subject to planning agreement…
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Legal notes: Do clauses prohibiting the oral variation of written contracts work?
Stuart Pemble reports that the Court of Appeal has decided the answer to this conundrum appears to be “no”
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Q&A: Relativity in lease extensions
Jeremy Hudson and David Peachey discuss a recent ruling concerning the calculation of premiums for residential lease extensions
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Lecturing on penalties
In extracts from 2016’s final Blundell Lecture, Mark Wonnacott QC and Elizabeth Fitzgerald air their thoughts on what a recent Supreme Court decision means for various areas of property law
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Valuers who provided a fresh valuation to enable a lender to make a further advance were also liable for sums loaned in reliance on their previous valuation
To demonstrate causation in a negligence claim, the claimant must establish that its loss was caused by the defendant. Or, to put it another way, the claimant must show that,…
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Parish council fails in legal attempt to stop Secretary of State from disagreeing with a planning inspector
A parish council in Buckinghamshire failed in its legal bid to block a school development in a case that centred on the government’s authority to disagree with a planning inspector…
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When are restrictive covenants part of a building scheme?
Where there is a building scheme, restrictive covenants will be mutually enforceable by all parties within the scheme, regardless of when plots are sold. As a result, purchasers of plots…
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Joined-up thinking: the European dimension
In his third and final article on joint ventures, Paul Chases teams up with Alex White and André Pretorius to look at the impact of the EU Merger Regulation on…
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The green mayor
Major hurdles in the way for London’s “greenest mayor ever”
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R (on the application of NHS Property Services Ltd) v Surrey County Council
Town or village green – Registration – Statutory incompatibility – Claimant landowner applying for judicial review of decision by defendant local authority to register land as town or village green…
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R (on the application of NHS Property Services Ltd) v Surrey County Council
Town or village green Registration