29 March 2022
We anticipate that the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 – now law but not yet in force – will be triggered and brought into force within the next six months. Effectively, this abolishes the ability to charge ground rents where developers are selling flats or houses on long leases.
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23 March 2022
Attention has recently focused on the Dec. 9, 2021, decision of Master Richard Davison in the Queen's Bench Division to order compulsory alternative dispute resolution between the parties in a high-value contentious claim under the Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978, albeit by consent.
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22 March 2022
Corporate partner, Elizabeth Small, has written for Taxation, looking at the Revenue and Customs Brief 2/2022.
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18 March 2022
The UK government has announced that it will introduce a further Economic Crime Bill, in addition to the one currently working its way through parliament, to bring in new powers to seize cryptoassets and to extend existing civil forfeiture powers to them.
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17 March 2022
Senior Solicitor in our Dispute Resolution team, Bryan Shacklady, has spoken to City AM about the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing solicitors to claim any legal costs from clients when claiming refunds for delayed and cancelled flights.
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9 March 2022
Dispute Resolution Senior Associate, Caroline Harbord, has been quoted in the Law360 article entitled 'TikTok privacy suit skirts Lloyd knockout for now'.
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1 March 2022
Contentious Trusts and Estates Senior Associates, Hannah Mantle and Maryam Oghanna, write for ThoughtLeaders4 Private Client on the key Inheritance Act 1975 cases from the last year.
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18 February 2022
Head of Cladding, Andrew Parker, and property litigation Senior Associate, Ryan Didcock, sat down this week with the people at the EG Podcast to discuss the latest proposals to the Building Safety Bill by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing & Communities, and their implications from both the leaseholder and developer perspective.
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17 February 2022
Residential Property Partner, Robert Barham, has authored an article for Estates Gazette entitled 'Losing ground: inside the Act abolishing ground rents in new long resi leases'.
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16 February 2022
Knowledge Development Lawyer, Miri Stickland, of Forsters' 'trailblazing real estate practice', recently spoke with Clarilis about the dramatic upturn in the use of LegalTech for commercial property transactions.
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