Section 141 of the Law of Property Act 1925 and Assignments of the Reversion
The fourth in our series of monthly articles commemorating the centenary of the passage of the Law of Property Act 1925 is written by Catherine Taskis KC, Philip Sissons and James Tipler.
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Debt-restructuring plans; cramming down on landlords
There has recently been a spate of decisions in which the court has been asked to sanction restructuring plans under s. 901 (G) of Companies Act 2006. Phil Sissons has written an article for the Woodfall Bulletin examining two of those cases in more detail and assessing what they might mean for commercial landlords faced with a tenant in financial difficulty. The original version of this article was first published in the Woodfall Landlord and Tenant Bulletin, September 2023
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Company Voluntary Arrangements - What steps can a landlord take to protect its position when a tenant proposes a CVA?
Phil Sissons has produced a short paper on Company Voluntary Arrangements - What steps can a landlord take to protect its position when a tenant proposes a CVA?
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Property Litigation column: The registration gap and possession proceedings
Philip Sissons discusses whether a purchaser can serve a section 8 or section 21 notice under the Housing Act 1988, or start possession proceedings at court, in the period between the date of completion of a purchase and the time at which its application to be registered as the new proprietor at HM Land Registry has been completed.
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Property law & the COVID-19 pandemic Part 2
Phil Sissons takes a look at the use and occupation of property and performance of property contracts in the second of a two part article for the LexisNexis New Law Journal.
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Property law & the COVID-19 pandemic Part 1
Phil Sissons takes stock of some of the substantive issues of property law that have resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Civil Procedure Update, July 2017
Phil Sissons considers the following topical issues: The Business and Property Courts; No relief from Mitchell; A new protocol for debt claims; and Costs on the small claims track
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Estoppel and Residential Leases
A recent spate of decisions in the Upper Tribunal have applied the doctrine of estoppel by convention in the context of service charge disputes.
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Dealing with breach of contract
Dealing with a breach of contract. What are the options for the innocent party when the contract is broken? Can they walk away from the deal, when and how?
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The Landlord’s intention under the 1954 Act
A paper given to the PLA in Manchester
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Beyond Stack v Dowden
Beyond Stack v Dowden. In-House Seminar Series, April 2009
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