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The Planning and Infrastructure Bill – Consequences and Unintended Consequences Tom Graham analyses the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, exploring its potential impact on commercial developers and the unintended consequences that could arise from proposed reforms. Click Here
Property Transactions Peta Dollar explores the complexities of conditional contract termination in property transactions and the implications of a party benefiting from its own breach. Read More
Variation of Leases Charlotte Wormstone (Partner, Property Disputes and Co-Head of Enfranchisement) and Isaac Craft (Trainee Solicitor) of Birketts LLP summarise the recent appeal decision relating to s.35 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 (the 1987 Act). Read More
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December 2024

December 2024

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Topics this month:  Ask the Expert - Georgina Muskett - Charles Russell Speechlys LLP A Look Back at 2024 and Making Plans for 2025 - Clarke Edwards Partnership After Grenfell - Ian Quayle - IQ Legal Training & Property Law UK An overview of Notices at detailed in...

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November 2024

November 2024

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Topics this month:  Ask the Expert - Paul Earnshaw, Consultant Solicitor, Taylor Rose, Self-employed An Exploration of the Law Relating to Adverse Possession and Boundary Issues - Ian Quayle - IQ Legal Training & Property Law UK Easements: Getting It Wrong… -...

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October 2024

October 2024

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Topics this month:  Ask the Expert - Ian Quayle speaks to Russell Hewitson, Associate Professor of Law, Northumbria University, and Law Society Council Member for Commercial Property. Disputed Land Ownership and the Ten-Year Rule - Ian Quayle Can Landlords Shift the...

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September 2024

September 2024

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Topics this month:  Ask the Expert - Liz Ramsden -  Knights Challenging Mortgage Account Claims - Nigel Clayton - Kings Chambers Considering your Career? Should I use a Recruitment Consultant? - The Clarke Edwards Partnership Construction Law – Collateral Warranties -...

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March 2025

March 2025

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Topics this month:  Ask the Expert - Valerie Holmes - Valerie Holmes Law Adverse Possession of Registered Land - Geraint Wheatley - Kings Chambers Business Lease Renewal - Ian Quayle - IQ Legal Training and Property Law UK Commercial Mortgage Lending - Nigel Clayton -...

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February 2025

February 2025

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Topics this month:  Ask the Expert - Julie Davis, Head of Residential Property, and Lynn Wilkinson - LCF Residential. A Practical Guide to the Law of Parking in Great Britain - Iain G Mitchell KC - Tanfield Chambers Applications for First Registration - Ian Quayle -...

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January 2025

January 2025

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Topics this month:  Ask the Expert - Dr Henry Crosby - Martello Boundary Disputes - Ian Quayle - IQ Legal Training & PLUK Case Chasers Podcast Episode 4 - Andrew Butler KC - Tanfield Chambers & Ian Quayle - IQ Legal Training & PLUK Commercial Property -...

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Variation of Leases

Pursuant to s.35 of the 1987 Act any party to a long lease of a flat may make an application to the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) for an order varying the lease. In this case, the flat roof of a ground floor extension was being utilised by the owners of the appellant as a terrace. The FTT was asked to consider the repairing obligations of the roof as the leases did not deal specifically with the point, the extension not having been documented under the ground floor lease (the Lease). An application was made by Mr and Mrs Wilson as tenants (Tenants) of the ground floor flat (Flat 1) to vary the lease pursuant to that statutory provision to clarify the repairing responsibility of the roof terrace as that of Weycroft Weybridge Ltd, as Landlord. At first instance the FTT found in favour of the applicant Tenants that the repairing obligation lay with the respondent Landlord. The Landlord appealed but the UT upheld the decision of the lower tribunal.
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