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Lease Renewals: Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 and Ground (f): Ensure the landlord at the time of the court hearing is the entity with the intention to carry out the works!
Author: Rachel Croft, Senior Associate, Real Estate Dispute Resolution, London This post follows from our previous posts on a landlord's right to oppose …
Tenants and prescriptive rights to light: five tips for developer landlords
Author: Matthew Weal, Associate, Real Estate Dispute Resolution, London It is of course open to landlords to grant their tenants express rights to light …
Light Obstruction Notices: Part of the Developer's toolkit?
Author: Julia Tobbell, Senior Associate, Real Estate Dispute Resolution, London Rights to light have had a fair deal of attention in development circles …
Terminating a business tenancy using the redevelopment ground – Part 2: The nature of the works
Author: Frances Edwards, Senior Associate, Real Estate Dispute Resolution, London In our first article on this topic, we considered, in general terms, …
Terminating a business tenancy using the redevelopment ground – Part 1: Showing the landlord's intention to redevelop
Author: Frances Edwards, Senior Associate, Real Estate Dispute Resolution, London One of the most common questions we are asked by developers at the land …
"Vi for Victory" for landowner in right of way dispute
Authors: Matthew Bonye, Partner and Head of Real Estate Dispute Resolution, London and Judith Smyth, Associate, Real Estate Dispute Resolution, London In …
Are landlords entitled to a redevelopment break in leases being renewed (Landlord and Tenant Act 1954)?
Author: Stephanie Trompeter, Senior Associate, Real Estate Dispute Resolution, London In this post I am writing about the court's approach to a new …
Black Wednesday for M&S as it loses Supreme Court Battle...
The Supreme Court unanimously rules that, in the absence of express wording in the lease, Marks and Spencer is not entitled to an apportioned refund of …
Bad Bargain? Bad news! Says the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has ruled that tenants will not necessarily be saved from bad bargains even if service charge provisions require them to pay sums well …
Judicial Review deadlines
The time limit for lodging an application for judicial review of a planning decision is now a fixed six weeks from the date of the decision. This will …
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