Property & Real Estate Barristers
Updates
Pease v Carter [2020] EWCA Civ 175
1st May 2020
Summary The Court of Appeal held that the reasonable recipient test set down in Mannai Investment Co Limited v Eagle Star...
Manchikalapati v Zurich Insurance Plc (t/a Zurich Building Guarantee and Zurich Municipal) [2019] EWCA Civ 2163
1st May 2020
Summary A contractual limit on an indemnity was construed as being the value off all of the leasehold units in a development...
Luton Community Housing Ltd v Durdana (2020) EWCA Civ 445
1st May 2020
Summary LCH successfully appealed the dismissal of its claim for possession against a tenant who had obtained a tenancy by...
Sahota v Prior [2019] EWHC 1418 (Ch)
1st May 2020
Summary The High Court declined to interfere with the Trial Judge’s decision that an owner of a property who had purchased...
Hook v Hawkins [2019] UKUT 147 (LC)
1st May 2020
Summary The Upper Tribunal set aside a decision of the FTT that the Respondent occupied the property under a tenancy under...
Bevan House Management v Denis Ludwig Becker
30th April 2020
Summary A leaseholder was found to have breached a covenant relating to user of a flat as a private residence only in...
The City of Westminster v Kothari LON/00BK/LBC/2019/0087
30th April 2020
Summary The subletting of a flat via Airbnb and Booking.com constituted a breach of a covenant against business user and a...
The Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020
30th April 2020
New regulations in relation to electrical safety in privately rented dwellings are due to come into force on 1 June 2020. ...
Eldersan Limited v Radan Covic (Personal Representative of Mrs Dusica Macrae-Brown) (Deceased) [2020] UKUT 3 (LC)
30th April 2020
Summary The Upper Tribunal reversed the decision of the First-tier Tribunal in a claim brought by the freeholder for a...
Fearn & Ors v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery [2020] EWCA Civ 104
25th February 2020
Summary There was no cause of action that existed in respect of a private nuisance for overlooking. The instant case was...