In Fred Perry (Holdings) Ltd v Genis and another (unreported), 1 August 2014, the High Court gave priority to a commercial creditor’s charging orders over a wife’s registered home rights and made an order for sale of the defendants’ home.
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The Court of Appeal has considered the extent of the power of the court (and registrar) to rectify the register under paragraph 8 of Schedule 4 to the Land Registry Act 2002 (LRA 2002).
The High Court has held that a landlord (as freehold owner) was liable to pay business rates for an empty property following disclaimer of the tenant’s lease.
The court has refused to make a costs order in circumstances in which all other matters had been disposed of by consent.
The Supreme Court has held that sewerage undertakers have an implied statutory right to discharge surface water and treated effluent from outfalls that were in existence before the coming into force of the Water Industry Act 1991 (WIA 1991).
The Court of Appeal has considered a landlord’s opposition to the lease renewal, of a business tenancy protected under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (LTA 1954), on the basis of disrepair and breaches of covenant.
A conveyance gifting a plot of land contained a parcel clause that was unclear as to the boundaries. The Court of Appeal applied Liaquat Ali v Robert Lane [2006] EWCA Civ 1532 and used the subsequent conduct of one of the original parties to the conveyance as evidence of the parties’ intentions. (Norman and another v…
The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal, and upheld a judge’s decision that an expert determination was not valid or enforceable.
Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Payments) Regulations 2013: property aspects.
On appeal from the Central London County Court, Akenhead J in the Technology and Construction Court (TCC) has held that, on the facts, a deed entered into by the parties to address issues arising from the building owner’s development governed the parties’ dispute, not the dispute resolution provisions in section 10 of the Party Wall…