Tips & Traps to avoid for leaseholders, freeholders & resident management companies
Presenting the next instalment in our ‘Tips & Traps to avoid…’ series where each month we will be showcasing examples of businessmen and women who made easily-avoidable errors costing them their valuable time and money.
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A Whistle-Stop Tour of Updates for Leasehold Reform
‘The current leasehold system is outdated, unbalanced and broken and we are determined to fix it’. These are the ominous words of Leasehold Minister, Lord Stephen Greenhalgh, who earlier this year expressed a view shared
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Lease Extensions: What People Ask and What You Need To Know
What is a long lease and what is a short lease? For leasehold owners of flats (as well as houses), simply put, a residential long lease is a lease that runs for a duration of
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Is automation the future of legal document drafting?
The ‘Internet of Everything’ is rapidly evolving the world scene- – with Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly interfacing with humans, dealing with customer queries, feedback and even anticipating purchases before they have been made. On the
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Is Life looking so Golden? The taxation of payments on termination of employment – A snapshot of the status quo and future trends
Introduction Payments on the termination of employment, also known as severance payments or more popularly in the commercial world referred to as: Golden Parachutes, Golden Handshakes or Golden Goodbyes can take various forms. In non-litigious
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Latest Eviction News for Local Landlords!
It has been three weeks since the Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick, put the ‘Cat amongst the pigeons’ for landlords by extending the moratorium on possession orders which in turn has led to the implementation of
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WANTED: The Reasonable Man
At some point he may have been introduced to you by your law firm: the reasonable man –the one from the Clapham omnibus. The reasonable man stands for an objectively measurable standard against which legal
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“On ya bike!” CJEU Tells UK Courts In Critical Copyright Case
In the past year or so there have been some interesting and significant developments in copyright law from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Brompton Bicycle Ltd v Chedech / Get2Get is
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Reaching the Age of Maturity – the New Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020
Don’t think that we are currently going through times of re-building and re-setting only. Parliament has speedily enacted a new, though long-awaited law providing for clear splits and cuts: the new Divorce, Dissolution and Separation
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The Case of 2020: FCA Brings Test Case for Business Interruption Policies
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected businesses of all shapes and sizes in almost every industry. As a result, there are a substantial number of claims being made to insurers under the terms of business interruption
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