Service charges
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Service charges and building insurance
A determination of the reasonableness of service charges for building insurance cover
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Service charges: procedural fairness
The FTT must give weight to the need to deal with cases fairly and justly
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Service charges: lack of clarity in application
A party making an application for a determination as to the reasonableness and payability of…
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Service charges: whether apportionment is just and equitable
If a tribunal is satisfied that there is a contractual provision that permits the landlord…
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Service charges: the approach to determining whether a charge is a variable service charge
When determining whether a charge is a variable service charge, it is advisable to start from…
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Service charges: reasonableness of estimated charges
The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has underscored that in relation to estimated charges…
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Service charges: correct test applied for costs under rule 13
The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has reaffirmed that the First-tier Tribunal is a costs-shifting…
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Service charges: outcomes of a landlord’s management decision engages FTT’s section 27A jurisdiction
The jurisdiction of the FTT is engaged under section 27A of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 only…
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Service charges: contribution towards lift that lessee did not use
If a lessee has the right to use part of a building under the terms of his lease and is obliged to…
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Reapportionment of service charges
The effect of section 27A(6) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 on reapportionment provisions in long leases
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Service charges: re-apportionment and jurisdiction of the FTT under section 27A(6) – revisited
A contractual provision relating to service charges will be void only to the extent it purports to oust the jurisdiction of the First-tier Tribunal
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Service charges: recovering legal costs
A management company that had an interest in enforcing the payment of insurance costs under a lease…