Business Service: Dispute resolution
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Basement Extensions | Removing Trespassing Underpinning
You have obtained planning permission, dealt with building control, signed a contract with your builders, sorted the party wall awards an...
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Party Wall Notices must come before an Award…or do they?
It can come as a nasty surprise if your neighbour starts work to your party wall without sending you a party wall notice first. But does ...
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Central Themes- The Impact of the Centralisation of Charging Order ...
April 2016 saw the coming into force of the 83rd amendment to the Civil Procedure Rules. In amongst the changes implemented by this instr...
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Privilege and the party wall surveyor’s file
In a number of cases I have advised on recently the party wall surveyors have declined to provide information from their file on that bas...
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Spotlight: Probate challenges of blended families – a case by...
A widower (“Thomas”) was recently subject to a claim made by the children of his deceased second wife’s (“Violet”) adult children from he...
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2016 case law gives warning to professional consultants offering in...
A court judgment highlights a risk common to any professional who offers informal advice. In what the court described as a “caution...
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Today is the Roman festival of “Terminalia”…..
….. which celebrates the Roman god Terminus, who was tasked with the protection of boundary markers. Where Roman estates adjoined they we...
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Party walls, injunctions and exemplary damages
Two recent decisions of the High Court send a salutary message to developers who recklessly infringe the property rights of others, and c...