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Many of the rights under the Party Wall Act are very wide-ranging, and have the potential to catch many building owners unaware. For example, the r...
News - 11/06/2013
Party Walls & the “De Minimis...
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Statutory appeals, such as an appeal under section 10(17) the Party Wall Act , can take one of two forms; an appeal by way of rehearing, or an appe...
News - 28/05/2013
Party wall appeals – Review or rehea...
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The Court of Appeal recently gave judgment in Nelson's Yard Management Co v Eziefula [2013] EWCA Civ 235, a case concerning whether the defendant s...
News - 10/04/2013
Party Wall Injunctions & Costs –...
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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 will cover ...
News - 19/03/2013
Boundary disputes 2 – The surveyor...
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….. which celebrates the Roman god Terminus, who was tasked with the protection of boundary markers. Where Roman estates adjoined they were marked ...
News - 23/02/2013
Today is the Roman festival of “Terminalia...
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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 the Party W...
News - 08/03/2011
Consent, damages & trespass to a party...
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It has long been thought that an adjoining owner could only request security from the building owner under s. 12(1) of the Party wall etc. Act 1996...
News - 01/11/2010
Security for expenses – Kaye v Lawrence
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Two recent decisions of the High Court send a salutary message to developers who recklessly infringe the property rights of others, and confirms th...
News - 25/10/2010