PLA News

This May, PLA Chair Mark Reading and Vice Chair Rebecca Campbell will be attending the UK’s Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum – or UKREiiF – the most important event in the UK property industry calendar, to represent the views of PLA members.

This year's Alan Langleben Memorial Blog Competition is now open - answers are sought in no more than 500 words to the following question: “Everyone has a right to a decent home” (Michael Gove, White Paper “A fairer private rented sector”).

The JAC have launched a campaign to identify two candidates to recommend for the post of Deputy Chancery Master. The closing date for applications is 1pm on the 13 February 2024. 

The PLA Annual General Meeting 2023 was held on 22 November 2023 at 7pm at Ironmongers’ Hall Shaftesbury Place, Barbican, London EC2Y 8AA. The minutes, unaudited accounts and amended Articles of Association following the meeting are available here.

The PLA Annual General Meeting 2023 will take place on 22 November 2023 at 6.45pm at Ironmongers’ Hall Shaftesbury Place, Barbican, London EC2Y 8AA.

Be part of the conversation! The PLA is launching a new committee to promote diversity, equity and inclusion. The PLA are inviting members, whatever their background or qualification, to apply to join the committee by Friday 13 October 2023.

The winner of the Alan Langleben Blog Competition 2023 was announced at this year's Joint PLA/PBA Summer Party in the Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn on 5 July.

The PLA has become a supporter of the Black Talent Charter. Established in 2020, the Charter aims to significantly increase the recruitment and representation of black professionals in the UK business community within ten years, particularly the legal and financial sectors where remuneration is typically highest and representation among the lowest.

The annual Alan Langleben Competition for 2023 is now open. The winning entry will be published in the Estates Gazette and receive £2,000 in prize money! Eligible entrants now includes trainees, apprentices and paralegals who are involved in property litigation. Closing day end of May.

Chair of the PLA Dellah Gilbert takes the opportunity to update Conference attendees on "all things PLA" and outlined her objectives to act on the formalisation of the wellbeing initiative and diversity, equity and inclusion in the PLA's Articles and to concentrate on geographical inclusion.