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Well over 100 PLA and PBA members attended the joint event on Wednesday 23rd January, where leading property professionals discussed the key property trends; laws and economic challenges that are set to disrupt the market in 2019.

PLA Scotland’s response to the Scottish Law Commission’s discussion paper on Aspects of Leases: Termination.

The head of the PLA talks about legal change, the organisation’s lobbying power and the impact of Brexit

Steven Woolf discusses the use of preventative injunctions to protect green spaces, in particular to combat fly-tipping and squatting.

Property Litigation Association  Estates Gazette 15 December 2018

JUNIOR PLA MEMBERS NEEDED FOR PLA SCOTLAND COMMITTEE

The Property Litigation Association (PLA) has introduced academics into the organisation for the first time.

Leading academics in property law have been welcomed as associate members of the Property Litigation Association for the first time in a bid to strengthen its ties with academia and better promote this area of the law as a career choice to undergraduates.

In October 2017 the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government announced a package of measures intended to address the private rented sector. One proposed measure was the introduction of a specialist Housing Court with a view to a more efficient and timely process by which landlords could recover possession, and tenants could enforce their rights.

Dentons partner Bryan Johnston is the new chair of the Property Litigation Association, having taken over from Shakespeare Martineau partner Martin Edwards.