Education & Training Resources

The need for strict compliance with conditions for exercise of a break clause.

Mixed use is most certainly in vogue. We constantly read about new gleaming mixed use developments where developers have residential properties usually situated above offices, shops, restaurants or even hotels. In many respects this is nothing new and is a return to the pre Victorian way we lived. There was over the past 150 years a steady separation between commercial and residential areas and thus a division between such developments. But the pressures of population growth and the reluctance to develop in greenfield sites has led to a rapidly changing development world. The centres of our cities are now once again places in which to live.

Discretion sits at the heart of all his client relationships. These include senior politicians in the UK and Europe, CEOs of FTSE 100 companies, world champions and high-level administrators from the world of sport, top-ranking people at NGOs across the globe, and many leaders of tomorrow.

In an ever changing market proposed property sales frequently become the subject of disputes, whether by those seeking to withdraw from a deal or those seeking to enforce it. This seminar will explore some of the interesting issues that might arise in such disputes with reference to recent cases.

In March 2009 Snooze Limited (“Snooze”) leased a warehouse on the outskirts of Coventry to Dash Limited (“Dash”) for a term of 10 years. Dash was a company which was in the business of parcel delivery. It used the warehouse to store orders purchased by customers until they could be collected by freelance drivers. The main administrative workforce operated from Dash’s registered office in the city centre.

When is receipt taxed as income?

Anyone who has watched television, or, for that matter, been outside, will know that the telecommunications market is in a constantly evolving state.

“Bring Me Sunshine” The scenario below is based on a development in central London, although it could be set in any other City in England and Wales.

Claims against tenants for damages for terminal dilapidations routinely include an amount for loss of rent, usually formulated by reference to the income said to have been foregone during the period reasonably necessary for carrying out the requisite repair works. In practice, such claims do not often succeed. What are the applicable legal principles?

The answer to the question: “No documents-what next?” of course very much depends on the context in which you ask it. One might for example have to give a very different answer if one had just been involved in a car accident than one might give if stopped in the street by a policeman in North Korea.