The Property Litigation Association has launched its second annual essay competition, and is urging its members to submit entries that could ultimately be featured in EG.
The Alan Langleben Memorial Essay Competition 2018, named after a longstanding PLA member who died in 2016, is open until the end of February, with PLA members invited to turn their thoughts to reform of commercial leasehold property law.
This year’s essay question is: “Reforming commercial leasehold property law is conspicuously absent from the Law Commission’s 13th Programme of Law Reform. If you could change any law in this particular area, what would that be and why is it important to anyone occupying or investing in UK real estate in 2018?”
Entrants’ essays should be no more than 1,500 words in length, and the competition is open to all current members of the PLA, with the exception of honorary, retired or academic members, or any current members of the Executive Committee or Law Reform Committee.
Submissions must be sent by email to essaycomp@pla.org.uk no later than 5pm on Wednesday 28 February 2018, with the winner – who will be announced at the PLA’s Annual Conference in March – to receive £1,000 and publication of their essay in EG.
Erina Kourtis, an associate at Taylor Wessing LLP, was the winner of the inaugural Alan Langleben Memorial Essay Competition in late 2016, with her essay calling for the law to be updated to protect purchasers from property fraud.
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