A not uncommon scenario involves a sale by V of part of his land to P, and a subsequent assertion by V (or his successor) that, as a matter of…
As more and more accommodation, residential and otherwise, comes to be assembled rather than built on site, problems are bound to arise as to whether the occupier has acquired or…
A person aggrieved by a planning or other administrative decision may well have cause to complain that things might have gone differently if he had only been consulted.
Challenges by way of appeal and judicial review – Update. Anyone minded to challenge a planning or planning-related decision will find a number of telling, and, in some cases, frightening…
Where a rent review clause fails to specify the term to be taken by the hypothetical tenant, it is normally assumed that the term will be equivalent to the unexpired…
The CGT issue considered by the House of Lords in Garner (HMIT) v Pounds Shipowners & Shipbreakers Ltd [2000] 34 EG 84 arose from an option to buy a property…
In Caradon District Council v Paton [2000] 35 EG 132, the claimant council, which had sold a house under the right-to-buy scheme, successfully restrained the buyer from letting his house…
When statute lays down a timetable, the usual concern is not to miss a deadline. The lesson to be learned from Enterprise Inns plc v Secretary of State for the…
Not surprisingly, it is not uncommon for L and T to create or drift into a situation where it is unclear whether T holds business premises as a periodic tenant…
Landlords seeking possession of an agricultural holding under Case B of the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 (land required for non-agricultural use) will welcome Court of Appeal rulings that:.
Release by one joint tenant in favour of other – Whether purported assignment. A secure tenancy is held jointly by A and B.
In their article, Plan-led swan song Estates Gazette 15 April 2000, p153, Martin Edwards and John Martin point to Welsh Development Agency v Carmarthenshire County Council [1999] PLSCS 234 as…