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Effects on assigning a lease for a business
The majority of landlords grant leases for one main reason – to obtain a steady income stream in the way of rent. A good tenant wil...
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Welfare Deputyships – a new test for Protected Parties with learnin...
A test case being described as a “landmark legal challenge” was heard by the Royal Courts of Justice last month. The case was brought by ...
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Directors’ dividends can be unlawful – Global Corporate Ltd v...
Brexit uncertainty is causing increasing difficulty for SMEs and OMBs who are facing uncertain trading conditions. It is worth rememberi...
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Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
It may become necessary for many people to receive care that restricts their personal freedom, such as where a person needs to move into ...
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Right to Light Law in the UK: Common Misunderstandings
A right to light is a right to receive uninterrupted light, passing across neighbouring land, into a window. If a building owner has a ri...
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Maintaining our Heritage – Listed Buildings
Our conveyancing team explain the steps that need to be taken into consideration when buying a listed building. They look into what class...
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Mock Employment Tribunal success
The Morrisons employment team joined up with Hardwicke Chambers to run a highly successful Mock Employment Tribunal event in the court ro...
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Can you ask your attorneys in your Lasting Power of Attorney to ass...
The simple answer is ‘no’. There have been recent cases before the courts to consider whether you can include instructions or preferences...
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The Bank of Mum and Dad
Karen Grimm, Senior Associate in our Private Client department based in our Woking office discusses the variety options available to pare...
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Who is an adjoining owner?
Before the building owner starts work he must serve one or more notices on the “adjoining owner”. But who are they? The neighbours, right...
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Boundary disputes 3 – Adverse possession
In my last posts, I looked at how to establish who is the “paper owner” of the land subject to a boundary dispute; that is, t...
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Boundary disputes 2 – The surveyor’s report
In my last post I explained that the starting point in any boundary dispute is to find and analyse the first conveyance. In this post I w...
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Boundary disputes 1 – Find the first conveyance
Following on from my earlier post, this is the first in a series that will set out the approach that the Courts and Land Registry Adjudic...
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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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Consent, damages & trespass to a party wall – Seeff v Ho
The Court of Appeal recently considered in Seeff v Ho [2011] EWCA Civ 186 the nature of an alleged oral waiver of the obligations under t...
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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...