Legal
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Let’s get hands-on with leasing and letting
How to tackle the leasing and letting competency for the APC
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An easier way to pass the baton
The benefits of employee ownership as a business succession solution
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Supreme Court to rule next week on human rights law in private possession claims
Judgment will be given next Wednesday in a landmark appeal over the role of human rights law in possession claims between private parties.
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What constitutes “statutory incompatibility” when dealing with an application to register land as a green?
R (on the application of Newhaven Port & Properties Ltd) v East Sussex County Council [2015] UKSC 7; [2015] PLSCS confirmed that land is not eligible for registration as a…
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Balkhi v Southern Land Securities Ltd
Landlord and tenant Service charge
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Balkhi v Southern Land Securities Ltd
Landlord and tenant – Service charge – Sinking fund – Appellant holding flat on long underlease from respondent headlessee – Respondent paying sums into sinking fund maintained by freeholder under…
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A contractual precedence clause came into its own where clauses could not fairly and sensibly be read together.
Alexander (as representative of the “Property 118 Action Group”) v West Bromwich Mortgage Co Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 496;[2016] PLSCS 163 concerned the extent of a lender’s contractual right to…
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Government challenges ruling giving travelling family a chance to settle on land between sewage plant and abattoir
A government lawyer today asked London’s Court of Appeal to overturn a ruling that gave a travelling family another chance to continue to live on waterlogged land in-between a sewage…
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Alexander (as representative of the “Property 118 Action Group”) v West Bromwich Mortgage Co Ltd
Mortgage – Conditions – Appellant taking out interest-only “tracker” mortgage with respondent lender to fund buy-to-let investment – Mortgage offer specifying term of mortgage as 25 years with interest rate…
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Buy-to-let BoE base rate tracker 25-year mortgage must track BoE base rate and last 25 years, court rules
The Court of Appeal in London has backed a buy-to-let investor who claimed that the terms of his mortgage were unfair
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Whitstable residents can challenge seafront development, court rules
Residents association The Whitstable Society can challenge Canterbury City Council’s decision to sell off a seafront plot of land known as the Oval for an initial payment of £165,000