Property Disputes training materials and How to guides

Property Disputes training materials

Our new starter guide provides an introduction to Property Disputes. It is aimed at trainee solicitors and those who are new to Property Disputes as a practice area. It focuses on the key topics and issues that arise in Property Disputes including:

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security of tenure for business tenancies and residential tenancies, ie how security of tenure arises and how it is terminated;
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exercising break clauses, including ensuring valid service of notices and compliance with any pre-conditions to exercising

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Welsh Government publishes written statement on LFRA 2024 phased implementation

The Welsh Government has published a written statement, outlining the phased implementation of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (LFRA 2024). Key provisions concerning the right to manage (RTM) came into force on 3 March 2025. These include section 49 of the LFRA 2024, which expands the criteria for buildings to qualify for RTM by increasing the non-residential space limit from 25% to 50%. LFRA 2024, ss 50 and 64, remove the requirement for RTM companies to cover other parties' costs when exercising RTM, except in cases determined by a tribunal. LFRA 2024, ss 51 and 52, shift the jurisdiction for leasehold cases from the courts to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal in Wales. The increase in the non-residential limit necessitated updates to RTM company model articles, resulting in the enactment of the RTM Companies (Model Articles) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2025, SI 2025/126, which also came into force on 3 March 2025, ensuring that leaseholders retain majority voting rights in RTM company decisions following the commencement of LFRA 2024 s 49. The Welsh Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government, Jayne Bryant MS, stated that further consultation is needed to develop the necessary subordinate legislation before other parts of LFRA 2024 can be enacted.

Minutes of the CPR Committee meeting—6 December 2024

The minutes of the CPR Committee (CPRC) meeting of 6 December 2025 (conducted in a hybrid format at The Rolls Building (Royal Courts of Justice) and via video conference) cover a number of issues including Closed Material Procedure, the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation (SLAPP), the Online Procedure Rule Committee, the outcome of the Workplace Claims consultation, the Service Sub-Committee, the Lacuna Sub-Committee and the contents of the winter Statutory Instrument and Practice Direction update.

Property Disputes weekly highlights—6 March 2025

This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: a decision by the First-tier Tribunal to dismiss an appeal against a financial penalty imposed as a result of the appellant’s failure to belong to an approved letting agency redress scheme, the Ministry of Justice’s announcement of reductions in the Courts Funds Office’s interest rates, and publication of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s White Paper on the reformed commonhold model in England and Wales and its response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 report. It also includes news analyses on the minutes of the CPR Committee meeting of 6 December 2024 and clarification of parties to electronic communications agreements on assignment, amendments made to correct errors in the Agricultural Tenancies (Requests for Landlord’s Consent or Variation of Terms) (Wales) Regulations 2025, the Housing Estates Bill, and High Court decisions concerning the amount of payment of post re-entry rent arrears payable as a condition of relief and an order for a claimant to pay consideration for accessing the defendant's land.

Clarification of parties to electronic communications agreement on assignment (AP Wireless v On Tower UK Ltd)

Property Disputes analysis: The Upper Tribunal was asked to decide on appeal whether On Tower UK Ltd, as assignee of three electronic communications agreements created by licence prior to 28 December 2017, had become a party to those agreements on completion of the assignments. It was held that while the assignee had gained the benefit of the licences on assignment (in that they had the benefit of Code rights granted under the agreements), they did not automatically become bound by the burden. Accordingly, in the absence of a covenant to be bound by and perform the obligations of the agreements, they could not be held to have assumed the burden of the agreements and therefore could not be a party to those Code agreements. Written by Daniel Wright, associate at Browne Jacobson LLP.

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