Articles

Leases that impose repairing liability upon tenants create obvious conflicts of interest between landlords and tenants. This conflict has caused disputes over centuries which show no signs of abating.

• Guy Fetherstonhaugh KC

Absent agreement, when can a landlord or a tenant under a commercial lease secure a variation of their existing lease terms on a renewal under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954?

• Oliver Radley-Gardner KC
• Tamsin Cox

In a recent appeal arising out of a property fraud a long time ago, the Upper Tribunal determined that the fraudster was not able to claim adverse possession of the property to defeat the true owner’s claim to have it back, even if he had been in possession for more than 12 years prior to 2003.

• Stephanie Tozer KC

In this article, Stephanie Tozer explores the judge’s criticisms of a lending decision in the recent case of Governors and Company of the Bank of Ireland v Watts Group plc [2017] EWHC 1667, and the effect of the decision.

• Stephanie Tozer KC

Tricia Hemans and Roisin McGlinn (an associate solicitor at TLT LLP) consider common arguments raised by borrowers against LPA Receivers

• Tricia Hemans