Property & Real Estate Barristers
Updates
Croydon LBC v Kalonga [2020] EWHC 1353 (QB)
11th August 2020
By Sam Madge-Wyld Background The "flexible tenancy" was the latest, and mercifully the last, in a long line of new...
Rees v Windsor- Clive Rees v Windsor-Clive (as Trustees of the St Fagan’s No 1 and No 2 Trusts) [2020] EWCA Civ 816
17th July 2020
Summary The question whether a right of entry clause permitted a landlord to undertake activities in order to comply with...
Triplerose Limited v Beattie and Beattie [2020] UKUT 180 (LC)
30th June 2020
Summary A lease that contains a covenant against use other than as a private dwellinghouse is breached where the tenant...
Trecarrell House Ltd v Rouncefield [2020] EWCA Civ 760
30th June 2020
Summary The Court of Appeal held that the failure to serve a gas safety certificate on a tenant before the tenant took up...
Croydon London Borough Council v Kalonga (2020) EWHC 1353 (QB)
30th June 2020
Summary A landlord under a fixed-term flexible tenancy did not have any right to determine the tenancy prior to the expiry...
Hastings Borough Council v Turner [2020] UKUT 184 (LC)
30th June 2020
Summary A property which was converted into flats before the Building Regulations 1991 came into force, which otherwise...
London Borough of Hackney v Okoro [2020] EWCA Civ 681
30th June 2020
Summary If possession proceedings were initially “brought” under CPR Part 55, and are not caught by one of the...
Thierry Fivaz v Marlborough Knightsbridge Management Ltd [2020] UKUT 0138 (LC)
30th June 2020
Summary As a matter of contractual interpretation, the entrance doors to flats were not to be regarded as “landlord’s...
Jafari v Tareem Limited [2019] EWHC 3119 (Ch)
30th June 2020
Summary The High Court examined the relevance of an offer of compensation to the question of whether a landlord was in...
Promontoria (Oak) Limited v Emanuel [2020] EWHC 563 (Ch)
28th May 2020
Summary In a possession and money claim brought by the registered assignee of a legal charge, the Appeal Judge found that...