Property & Real Estate Barristers
News & Events: Landlord & Tenant
Building Safety Charges: The New Law
21st September 2020
Background The Building Safety Bill 2020[1] was published on 20th July 2020, at a time when landlord and tenant...
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...
“Up To Date” Podcasts – Episode 4
17th July 2020
A regular short update of the most important developments in the property law world brought to you by our Junior barristers. ...
Tanfield Talks “Reform is in the Air – What’s proposed for Leasehold?”
14th July 2020
The Government and the Law Commission have been busy over the last year or so looking at ways to improve the lives of...
“Up To Date” Podcasts – Episode 3
30th June 2020
A regular short update of the most important developments in the property law world brought to you by our Junior barristers. ...
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...