Hot on the heels of the snappily named Protocol for Applications for Consent to Assign or Sublet (The Alienation Protocol), a group comprising several eminent QCs and solicitors have developed the similarly concise Protocol for Applications for Consent to Carry Out Alterations (the Alterations Protocol).
Read moreLast Wednesday evening, the Planning team welcomed James Maurici QC and Sasha Blackmore of Landmark Chambers, together with 40 external guests, at a seminar to discuss a series of recent cases on the interpretation of planning conditions.
Read moreThe recent Court of Appeal case of Cocking v Waring, which centres around a dog's tenacious barking, has highlighted a key difference between entering into a lease verses a licence to occupy.
Read moreProperty programmes are a staple of the television schedules in England and Wales and can often be used as a barometer of the residential property market.
Read moreParkingEye, in contrast, raised the issue of penalty clauses at a consumer level. ParkingEye managed a car park at a retail park offering free parking for stays of 2 hours or less with a fixed fee of £85 for parking in excess of that timeframe.
Read moreIn short, a LADs clause provides that the contractor will pay damages to the employer if there is delay for which the contractor is culpable. The figure should be a genuine valuation of pre-determined loss, assessed at the time that the contract is entered into.
Read moreDuring the 2016 Budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne announced the abolition of the SDLT slab rates for commercial property in England and Wales at midnight on the 16 March 2016. This follows the introduction of progressive SDLT rates for residential property in December 2014.
Read moreFurther to my last post on the subject (and to some slippage in the Government's timetable for implementation), the final guidance and draft regulations have recently been published.
Read moreIn June 2015, Juliet Edmondson asked a sensitive and topical question on this blog: does every Englishman really need a castle?
Read moreOn a cold and frosty February evening the great and the good of the residential property management scene descended on Forsters' offices at 31 Hill Street for the hotly anticipated Residential Management Disputes Seminar.
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