16 December 2011 | Faiza Ahmad
The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets) Regulations 2011 came into force on 10 November 2011.
Under these Regulations, a tenant will have the right to ask their landlord to allow a competitor electricity...
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25 March 2011 | Faiza Ahmad
Housing Minister Grant Shapps has announced that the Government will “take steps” in 2012 to make squatting a criminal offence.
Squatting is not currently a criminal offence in England and Wales, so...
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10 March 2011 | Laura Seaman |
New research by legal publisher Sweet & Maxwell has found that the number of High Court legal disputes between commercial property landlords and tenants has surged by 43 per cent.
Although most...
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17 February 2011 | Madeleine Wakeley
The Law Society has warned of the uncertainty and chaos changes to the new Localism Bill could cause to the property market.
The changes would strengthen the power of local planning authorities to...
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7 October 2010 | Michael Oberwarth
The Department for Communities and Local Government has published new Guidance to the Mortgage Repossessions (Protection of Tenants etc) Act 2010 (MRPTA).
The growth in the letting of property and the...
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1 September 2010 | Beth Lovell |
The recent decision in Peacock v MGN Ltd [2010] EWHC 90174 (Costs) has highlighted the strength of a staged success fee in a CFA.
Background
Historically, all forms of contingency fees in litigation...
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1 June 2010 | Faiza Ahmad
£30,000, £40,000, £75,000, £100,000 – significant amounts of money? Yes and these are all examples of the legal costs people across the country have recently spent on fighting boundary disputes...
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27 April 2010 | Richard John
Irish property developer Ballymore has won a High Court judgment against a buyer who tried to pull out of the purchase of one of its flats in its Pan Peninsula scheme in London.
The Court ruled that...
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14 April 2010 | Faiza Ahmad |
Currently, to be an Assured Shorthold Tenancy the annual rent under the tenancy must be less than £25,000 per annum. This threshold will increase to £100,000 with effect from 1 October 2010 . The statutory...
14 April 2010 | Jackie Hanlon
The Mortgage Repossessions (Tenant Protection) Act 2010 (“the Act”) has now been passed. The aim of the Act is to provide protection to unauthorised tenants where a tenancy has been granted by a...
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