Legal
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Upward development: Look to the skies
With demand for development space increasingly leading landlords to consider extending upwards, Bryan Johnston, Jane Miles and Emma Broad consider the key issues involved when adding new floors to existing…
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Estates Gazette’s mainly for students series
Mainly For Students is a regular series aimed at the property lawyers of tomorrow, giving you vital guidance on key areas of practice.
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Mainly for students: The top 10 of planning: part 1
In the first of a special two-part series on the 10 current planning law issues every practitioner should know, Carl Dyer runs through numbers one to five
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Will toilet ruling be a major inconvenience?
John Martyn flushes out exactly what a recent decision involving toilet provision at a branch of bakery chain Greggs means for food and drink outlets
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Local community benefits are irrelevant to issues of land use
In R (Wright) v Forest of Dean District Council [2016] EWHC 1349 (Admin), Mr Justice Dove had to answer the question whether or not an element of the package of…
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Balancing exercise carried out by a planning inspector
In Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government v BDW [2016] EWCA Civ 493, the Court of Appeal had to consider whether an inspector deciding an appeal against a…
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McDonald v McDonald and others
Landlord and tenant Human rights
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McDonald v McDonald and others
Landlord and tenant – Human rights – Possession – European Convention on Human Rights – Housing Act 1988 – Property let to appellant tenant by her parents in breach of…
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Does a court have to consider the proportionality of evicting an occupier in private sector possession claims?
This was one of three linked issues considered by the Supreme Court in McDonald v McDonald [2016] UKSC 28 – and perhaps the most important one
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Lancashire County Council v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Town or village green Registration
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Dunbar Commercial Court case could break legal ground on “duties of an administrator”
A complicated property case being heard in London could break new ground and set important legal precedents about the role and duties of administrators, according to the claimant’s lawyer.
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Lancashire County Council v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Town or village green – Registration – Locality – Claimant local authority owning land adjacent to primary school – Interested party applying to register land as town or village green…