Lease
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View from the bar: The value of independent expertise
Surely the time has come for lease renewal valuation disputes to be determined by valuers?
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Flat refusals: how not to alter
A recent decision illustrates the pitfalls associated with alterations to residential property
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Which company are you dealing with?
The names used in a contract tie the transaction to the parties named in it…
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Avoid panic over a dilapidations invoice
What is the best approach to providing for dilapidations liabilities in company accounts.
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EMA to get second chance to argue Brexit frustration
The judge who ruled against the EMA in its dispute with CWG has granted it permission to appeal
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Be on guard with licences and leases
Allyson Colby looks at a recent case involving the growing trend of property guardianship
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Brexit and the doctrine of frustration
The principles that make up the doctrine of frustration and the arguments for and against Brexit-induced frustration of leases
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R (on the application of Muir) v Wandsworth London Borough Council
Lease Common land
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R (on the application of Muir) v Wandsworth London Borough Council
Lease – Common land – Private nursery – Appellant local authority granting long lease of premises on common land to limited company to operate private nursery – Respondent applying for…
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A document that called itself a licence was, in fact, a lease
The characteristics that distinguish a lease from a licence were explained in Street v Mountford [1985] 1 EGLR 128; (1985) 274 EG 821. The decision confirmed that the grant of…
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A lease of premises included the airspace above it too
Ralph Kline Ltd v Metropolitan and County Holdings Ltd [2018] EWHC 64 (Ch); [2018] PLSCS 104 concerned a long lease of buildings granted in 1970. Thirty years later, the landlord…
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R (on the application of Muir) v Wandsworth London Borough Council
Common land Public or recreational use