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Following on from the news that LEASE (the Leasehold Advisory Service - a quango) had not been granted funding to continue to advise the public on commonhold issues (see our note, here), comes the news that it is to stop offering mediation services in...
Hemphurst Ltd v Durrels House Ltd [2011] UKUT 6 (LC) is, I suspect, going to go on appeal to the Court of Appeal. Certainly, if you practice in the field of leasehold enfranchisement, it's one you'll want to know about as it's pretty important. In general...
McHale v Cadogan [2010] EWCA Civ 1471 is turning into a bit of a Jarndyce v Jarndyce. We noted the first part of the Court of Appeal decision earlier in the year here and ended it by saying: "The appeal also raised another issue, namely whether the...
... a case about service charges, balancing payments, LVT procedure and precedent. In Holding and Management (Solitaire) Ltd v Sherwin [2010] UKUT 412 (LC), the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) had to grapple with s.20B, Landlord and Tenant Act 1985. This...
Chapter 1, Part 2, Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 makes provision for "qualifying tenants" of a building to form a company that, in turn, will acquire the right to manage the property from the freeholder. It is largely modeled on the collective...
Continuing with the (ir)regular residential leasehold update, we have Cadogan v Panagopoulos [2010] EWCA Civ 1259, on appeal from the High Court (our note, here), which was itself an appeal from the county court. I'm not going to set out the factual or legal...
Whilst we're waiting for Wednesday, (when the Supreme Court will give judgment in Pinnock, in case you were wondering), the housing law world doesn't stop in the interim. Far from it. So, without further ado, lets turn to Regent Management Ltd v Jones [2010]...
Word reaches us (via the Garden Court North website) of what appears to be a fascinating piece of litigation in the High Court (Leeds District Registry) concerning sale and rent back schemes (as to which, see our earlier piece, here). A number of former...
Wilson v Lesley Place (RTM) Company Ltd [2010] UKUT 342 (LC) I confess to being a bit bitter about this case. The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) is hideously overworked. It can (and often does) take over a year for an appeal from an LVT to get before the...
Yesterday the Leasehold Advisory Service (LEASE) announced in a press release that it would be operating a morning duty advice scheme at the London offices of the LVT from 21 September 2010. This news follows hot foot on the announcement that from 16...
Dibble v Pfluger [2010] EWCA Civ 1005 concerns an appeal in a joint property case, largely decided on its facts. It has one interesting point of note for anyone who practices in this field: the couples were engaged to be married for much of the period of...
Donath v Trustees of the Second Duke of Westminster Will Trust [PDF] is a first instance decision of the LVT. We do not normally reports such things but it concerns an application to vary an old-style estate management scheme. So rarely does one see estate...