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Property Disputes weekly highlights—19 December 2024

Property Disputes weekly highlights—19 December 2024

The following Property Disputes news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Property Disputes weekly highlights—19 December 2024

Tenant Fees Act 2019—check-out challenge fails (Switaj v McClenaghan)

Tenant Fees Act 2019—check-out challenge fails (Switaj v McClenaghan)

The following Property Disputes news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Tenant Fees Act 2019—check-out challenge fails (Switaj v McClenaghan)

Property Disputes weekly highlights—12 December 2024

Property Disputes weekly highlights—12 December 2024

The following Property Disputes news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Property Disputes weekly highlights—12 December 2024

How long is twelve months? Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) considers principles for calculation of time periods (Moh v Rimal Properties Ltd; Kelly v Bostall Estates Ltd)

How long is twelve months? Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) considers principles for calculation of time periods (Moh v Rimal Properties Ltd; Kelly v Bostall Estates Ltd)

How long is twelve months? Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) considers principles for calculation of time periods (Moh v Rimal Properties Ltd; Kelly v Bostall Estates Ltd)

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Forfeiture of a lease

Forfeiture of a lease

Forfeiture of a leaseWhen can a landlord exercise the right to forfeit a lease?Forfeiture is a landlord’s right to bring a lease to an end as a result...

Specific performance of property agreements

Specific performance of property agreements

Specific performance of property agreementsIf a party to a property agreement fails to comply with its obligations, the other party may wish to apply...

Can a tenant retract a notice to quit previously served to exercise a break clause in an assured shorthold tenancy before expiry of the notice?

Can a tenant retract a notice to quit previously served to exercise a break clause in an assured shorthold tenancy before expiry of the notice?

Can a tenant retract a notice to quit previously served to exercise a break clause in an assured shorthold tenancy before expiry of the notice?Whether...

Occupiers’ liability

Occupiers’ liability

Occupiers’ liabilityOccupiers' Liability Act 1957Under the Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 (OLA 1957), an occupier of property owes a common law duty of...

Q&As

Can a deposit held as stakeholder be released if one set of solicitors is unresponsive or provides spurious reasons for withholding consent?

Can a deposit held as stakeholder be released if one set of solicitors is unresponsive or provides spurious reasons for withholding consent?When...
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Produced in partnership with Kate Andrews of Hamlins
2nd Mar
Practice notes

Mortgagee in possession

Mortgagee in possessionThis Practice Note covers the rights and responsibilities of a mortgagee in possession.RightsA legal mortgagee has a right to...
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2nd Mar
Practice notes

Rectification—mutual mistake

Rectification—mutual mistakeRectification is an equitable remedy by which the court can correct an error of expression where a written document does...
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2nd Mar
Practice notes

Claims for use and occupation, mesne profits, double rent and double value

Claims for use and occupation, mesne profits, double rent and double valueThis Practice Note provides guidance on claims for ‘use and occupation’ or...
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2nd Mar
Practice notes

Order for sale—next steps after obtaining an order for sale

Order for sale—next steps after obtaining an order for saleThis Practice Note provides guidance as to conducting the sale under an order for sale...
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1st Mar
Practice notes

Notice to complete

Notice to completeWhile this Practice Note primarily covers commercial property matters, it also touches on residential considerations.Time is...
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1st Mar
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Practice notes

Private nuisance—general principles

Private nuisance—general principlesWhat situations can give rise to a claim?Private nuisance is a ‘violation of real property rights’. It normally...
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Produced in partnership with Professor Richard A Buckley M.A, D.Phil, DCL, Oxford of University of Reading
1st Mar
Practice notes

Successors in title—leases

Successors in title—leasesThe meaning of the term ‘successors in title’ will depend upon the context of the use of the term and also the drafting of...
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2nd Mar
Practice notes

Surrender by operation of law

Surrender by operation of lawA surrender by operation of law (or ‘implied surrender’) occurs when the unequivocal conduct of both parties is...
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1st Mar
Practice notes

What happens to an underlease on termination of the lease?

What happens to an underlease on termination of the lease?The general common law principle is that when a lease comes to an end any underlease...
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1st Mar
Practice notes

Estoppel and property law

Estoppel and property lawThis Practice Note discusses issue that arise in proprietary estoppel in a property context. For a general discussion of...
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2nd Mar
Practice notes

Release from landlord's covenants—LT(C)A 1995

Release from landlord's covenants—LT(C)A 1995The Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995 (LT(C)A 1995) gives tenants, and their guarantors, an...
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2nd Mar
Q&As

Can a neighbour attach something to the external wall of a neighbouring property, which is said to be a party wall?

Can a neighbour attach something to the external wall of a neighbouring property, which is said to be a party wall?The Party Wall etc Act 1996 (PWA...
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Produced in partnership with Kevin Leigh of No 5 Chambers
2nd Mar
Practice notes

Breach of Missives—remedies in Scotland

Breach of Missives—remedies in ScotlandMissivesThe most common form of contract in Scottish property transactions are missives of sale, see for...
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Produced in partnership with Alistair Drummond, Tony Holloran, Vladimir Kucera and Scott Traynor of DLA Piper Scotland LLP
1st Mar
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Q&As

Can a landlord who has forfeited a commercial lease by re-entry, go against guarantors of the lessee for all losses (ie rent and service charge arrears) incurred up to the point of forfeiture? Can the landlord go against the guarantors for losses incurred subsequent to forfeiture eg the costs of clearance and reinstatement of the property?

Can a landlord who has forfeited a commercial lease by re-entry, go against guarantors of the lessee for all losses (ie rent and service charge...
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Produced in partnership with Chris Bryden of 4 King’s Bench Walk
1st Mar
Q&As

A rent deposit paid under a commercial lease is to be held on trust and the deposit entitles but does not require the landlord to withdraw from it in the event of default. Can the landlord elect to forfeit and then use the rent deposit to settle rent arrears after forfeiture?

A rent deposit paid under a commercial lease is to be held on trust and the deposit entitles but does not require the landlord to withdraw from it in...
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Produced in partnership with Christopher Snell of New Square Chambers
2nd Mar

Popular documents

If a lease is disclaimed does the landlord need to enter into a deed of surrender with the liquidators on

If a lease is disclaimed does the landlord need to enter into a deed of surrender with the liquidators on behalf of the tenant to terminate the lease?Where a liquidator disclaims a lease, the lease comes to an end (at least as far as the tenant is concerned). It is, however, deemed to continue for

Insolvency of freeholder landlord—issues for tenant

Insolvency of freeholder landlord—issues for tenantWhat are the issues for a tenant if the freeholder landlord becomes insolvent? This Practice Note covers who the rent will become payable to and the position of the rent deposit, what happens when the landlord breaches covenants in the lease, and

Is it possible for a mortgagee in possession to grant an option to purchase? And is a court order

Is it possible for a mortgagee in possession to grant an option to purchase? And is a court order necessary for a mortgagee to exercise their right to grant an agricultural or occupational lease to a tenant for a maximum of 50 years under section 99 of the Law of Property Act 1925?Mortgagee’s power

A leaseholder company was dissolved, and the property and rights vested in it passed to the Crown (bona

A leaseholder company was dissolved, and the property and rights vested in it passed to the Crown (bona vacantia). In reference to this: (1) Can the landlord claim possession of the leased property and if so, how?; and (2) can the landlord claim money owed to it under the lease, and if so how and