Property & Real Estate Barristers
Articles
Enforcement of payments in party wall matters
16th January 2017
Surveyors are often, and understandably, concerned as to how they can ensure that they are paid for the work they do as party...
Gray v Elite Town Management
6th January 2017
Party walls; extent of duty to avoid unnecessary inconvenience under section 7(1); appointment of surveyors; grant of...
Landlord & Tenant – Administration Charges
14th December 2016
Summary No duress had been applied by a landlord on his tenant when the former sought retrospective consent for works...
The Unpaid Vendor’s Lien: When? What? How?
7th December 2016
The unpaid vendor's lien is a rarely-seen and little-understood creature of property law. In his recent judgment in Menelaou...
Down on the Farm – Proprietary Estoppel
24th November 2016
Rebecca Cattermole highlights the current position on the doctrine of estoppel in the context of recent case law. View the...
Sinclair Gardens Investments (Kensington) Ltd v Wisbey [2016] UKUT 203 (LC)
1st November 2016
Summary Solicitors costs of and incidental to the preparation of a counter notice were recoverable under s. 60 LRHUDA 1993....
Denholm v Stobbs [2016] UKUT 288 (LC) (aka ’12 Needham Road’)
1st November 2016
Summary In a decision which post-dated Sloane Stanley v Mundy, the Upper Tribunal, arrived at relativity by making a...
Greenpine Investment Holding Ltd v Howard de Walden Estates Ltd [2016] EWHC 1923 (Ch)
1st November 2016
Summary On the assumed basis that terms of acquisition could be raised after the date of the counter notice, a requirement...
Employment law yearly round-up
26th October 2016
Martina Murphy from Tanfield Chambers and Ed Stacy of PWC Legal LLP provide an overview of the developments in employment law...
Airbnb – a wonderful idea or is it?
22nd October 2016
Landlords have legal tools at their disposal to prevent their properties being used as a hotel Airbnb seems like a wonderful...