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News & Events: Service Charges
Service Charges in Mixed Use Developments
7th July 2015
By their very nature, mixed-use developments involve multiple parties with competing interests. This often leads to disputes...
Service Charges & Estate Management Update – June 2015
12th June 2015
Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36 There is no general principle that service charge clauses should be construed...
Service Charges & Estate Management Update – April 2015
5th May 2015
Cain v London Borough of Islington [2015] UKUT 0117 (LC) Where, in proceedings over a disputed service charge which were...
Service Charges & Estate Management Update – March 2015
2nd March 2015
Caddick v Whitsand Bay Holiday Park Ltd [2015] UKUT 0063 (LC) The FTT had not erred in striking out a s.27A application made...
Service Charges & Estate Management Update – February 2015
2nd February 2015
Gater v Wellington Real Estate Ltd [2014] UKUT 561 (LC) A clause in a head lease which provided that the apportionment of...
Service Charges & Estate Management Update – January 2015
6th January 2015
Francis v Philips [2014] EWCA Civ 1395 The correct approach to the meaning of "qualifying works" in s.20 and s.20ZA of the...
Service Charges in Mixed-Use Developments
19th December 2014
By their very nature, mixed-use developments involve multiple parties with competing interests. This often leads to disputes...
Service Charges & Estate Management Update – September & October 2014
1st October 2014
Sugarman v CJS Investments LLP [2014] EWCA Civ 1239 On the proper construction of an article in a management company's...
Service Charge Summit 2014
30th Sep 2014
The Second Service Charge Summit, hosted by News on the Block and Tanfield Chambers, will take place on 30 September 2014. ...
Service Charges & Estate Management Update – August 2014
1st August 2014
Barratt v Robinson [2014] UKUT 322 A landlord was not entitled to recover its legal costs under the covenant for...