Property & Real Estate Barristers
News & Events: Landlord & Tenant
“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...
Tanfield Talks “Ghosts in the Service Charge Machinery”
18th June 2020
Financial pressures brought on by COVID have brought many landlords and tenants together in agreeing rent and service charge...
Tanfield Talks “Live Event” – Opposition Grounds under 1954 Act s.30
5th June 2020
“Summer’s Lease hath too short a date”: William Shakespeare (Sonnet 18) In this 4th talk of a series of remote...
Tanfield Talks “Live Event” – Forfeiture: why would you!? How could you!!?
27th May 2020
The Coronavirus Act 2020 has wrought significant changes to the law of forfeiture in the commercial context. In this third...
Leasehold enfranchisement – options to reduce the price
26th May 2020
L & T. Review 2020, 24(3), 89-95 L & T. Review 89 Leasehold enfranchisement is notoriously complicated and...