Welcome to your weekly round-up of the pick of the content published on EG Legal over the past seven days.
This week, we look at the practical problems in land registration that can trip up even experienced conveyancers and their clients. In addition, the second article in a three-part data series from Osborne Clarke looks at “data-as-a-service”. Meanwhile, we have an update on the government’s proposed roadmap out of the moratorium on forfeiture – plus MEES and more.
Legal news
Government launches commercial rents consultation
Legal features
Lifting the moratorium: no one size fits all
All interests should be listened to when charting a roadmap out of the forfeiture moratorium, writes Rebecca Campbell
Land registration: don’t fall at the final hurdle
Bill Chandler highlights several practical points that can cause unwelcome discomfort
Data-as-a-service and how we can learn from experience
Conrad Davies, Simon Spooner, David Ferris and Catherine Hammon |on using the experience of other sectors to augment the real estate sector with data
Raising the MEES regulations
Simon Keen and Megan Stewart take a look at the latest proposals and what they will mean for commercial landlords and tenants
Legal notes
Caught between a rock and a cliffe
Stuart Pemble helps summarise the first business interruption insurance case
Practice points
An interference with an easement to use airspace was actionable
Bockenfield Aerodrome Ltd v Clarehugh
How stringent is the duty to sell at the best price reasonably obtainable?
Hyde & another (joint liquidators of One Blackfriars Ltd) v Nygate
Did an occupier have a long lease, a periodic tenancy, or a tenancy at will?
Smoke Club Ltd (in administration) v Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd
The county court considers pandemic provisions and energy efficiency
WH Smith Retail Holdings Ltd v Commerz Real Investmentgesellschaft mbH
Assessing rents for new business leases in times of Covid
WH Smith Retail Holdings Ltd v Commerz Real Investmentgesellschaft mbH
Case coverage
Law report: Corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond v Prescott and another
Case summary: WH Smith Retail Holdings Ltd v Commerz Real Investmentgesellschaft MBH
Landlord and tenant – Business tenancy – Renewal of lease
Case summary: Smoke Club Ltd (in administration) and others v Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd
Compulsory purchase – Compensation – Proprietary estoppel
Law report: Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Ltd v Ashloch Ltd and another
Telecommunications – Electronic Communications Code – Code rights – Jurisdiction
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