Legal
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Mortgage Express v Lambert
Mortgage – Enforcement – Overriding interest – Appellant unable to repay mortgage and selling flat at considerable undervalue – Purchasers promising that appellant able to continue living in flat indefinitely…
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Pineport Ltd v Grangeglen Ltd
Landlord and tenant Relief from forfeiture
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Pineport Ltd v Grangeglen Ltd
Lease – Rent arrears – Relief from forfeiture – Defendant landlord forfeiting lease for arrears of rent – Claimant applying for relief against forfeiture 14 months later – Whether delay…
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R (on the application of XY) v Maidstone Borough Council
Town and country planning – Planning permission – Material consideration – Claimant applying for judicial review of defendants’ decision to grant planning permission for change of use from grazing to…
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R (on the application of XY) v Maidstone Borough Council
Town and country planning Material consideration
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A mergers and acquisitions safety net
Warranty and indemnity insurance can offer protection for both sides in an M&A deal
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Taking charge of part
Barbara Webb and Mark Gauguier look at the additional complexities involved with a charge of part of a property, and various possible ways lenders can protect all required rights over…
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Legal notes: A question of trust
Allyson Colby reviews a recent case which ruled on a solicitor’s liability for breach of trust
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Padwick Properties Ltd v Punj Lloyd Ltd
Landlord and tenant – Surrender – Surrender by operation of law – Tenant of property going into administration – Purchaser of tenant’s assets going into occupation of property for a…
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Lee v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and another
Town and country planning – Gypsies – Green belt – Appellant Romani gypsy living with family in mobile home sited on land in green belt – Planning permission refused for…
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Lee v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and another
Town and country planning Gypsies
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Queen guitarist Brian May has costs claim cut after basement row settled
Brian May has recovered only a fifth of the £200,000-plus he claimed in legal costs after he accepted a settlement in a row with neighbours over a basement extension