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Business tendencies
Security of tenure for business tenancies under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 is a key area for a property litigator. Get the research and tools to advise on how security arises and how it’s terminated, daily.
Forfeiture
Guidance covers the procedural and practical considerations prior to and throughout the process of forfeiting a lease. We give detailed guidance, linking deeper commentary, forms, precedents and a wide range of Q&As.
Electronic Communication Code
Guidance to secure rights to install and retain equipment to provide electronic communications services. Code issues, in respect of granting and terminating agreements, frequently arise between landowners and operators.
Property disputes
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Latest Property Disputes News
Property Disputes analysis: The Privy Council have upheld a tenant's claim to terminate a lease following a landlord's repudiatory breach. While only...
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has updated its guide to the Renters' Rights Bill to capture changes made during its...
This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s announcement that the...
Property Disputes analysis: The Divisional Court has ruled that rent is not payable by contract-holders in Wales unless and until landlords provide...
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has announced that the Renters’ Rights Bill has progressed to its report and third...
Latest Property Disputes Practice Notes
Brexit timelineOn 23 June 2016, the UK held a referendum on its membership of the EU, with a majority voting in favour of the UK leaving the EU. On 29...
Tenants’ improvements—LTA 1927The Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 (LTA 1927) allows a tenant of certain holdings to serve notice stating its intention to...
Property case tracker—2024The Property case tracker is a list of key judgments from 2024 which we consider relevant to property lawyers. Cases are...
Building Safety Act 2022—what is a higher-risk building?The Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA 2022) paved the way for significant changes to the law on...
Judicial review—interested parties and intervenersInterested partiesIn the context of judicial review, an interested party is 'any person (other than...
Latest Property Disputes Precedents
Draft Settlement agreement—pre-action settlementThis Agreement is made the day of 20[insert year]Parties:1[insert name of party], a company registered...
Draft Settlement agreement—for settling disputes post-commencement of proceedingsThis Agreement is made the day of 20[insert year]Parties:1[insert...
Covering letter to accompany Reply Form in response to letter of claim sent pursuant to the Pre-Action Protocol for Debt Claims[Name of creditor’s...
Letter of claim—contractual debt claim—in compliance with the Pre-Action Protocol for Debt Claims[On the headed notepaper of the creditor’s...
Letter of claim—contractual debt claim[ON THE HEADED NOTEPAPER OF THE CLAIMANT’S SOLICITORS]Our reference: [insert your file reference for this...
Latest Property Disputes Q&As
Featured Property Disputes content
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 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?
Occupiers’ liability
Occupiers’ liabilityOccupiers' Liability Act 1957Under the Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 (OLA 1957), an occupier of property owes a common law duty of...
Can a deposit held as stakeholder be released if one set of solicitors is unresponsive or provides spurious reasons for withholding consent?
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...
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...
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...
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...
Notice to complete
Notice to completeWhile this Practice Note primarily covers commercial property matters, it also touches on residential considerations.Time is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Can a neighbour attach something to the external wall of a neighbouring property, which is said to be a party wall?
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...
Associated legal terms
Arrears
Sums reserved in a lease which a tenant fails to pay on the due date. A right to forfeit may be reserved in a lease once sums have been outstanding for a specified period of time.
Interim rent
The amount of rent which a tenant pays whilst its tenancy is continued pursuant to LTA 1954, s 24, where an application for interim rent is made by the landlord or tenant.
Peaceable reentry
A method of forfeiture where the landlord physically re-enters the premises by manifesting its intention to forfeit the lease, usually by changing the locks.
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