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“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often“

Michelle Caney St Ives Chambers August 2017

Your PLA executive committee and subcommittees have been working hard to revise the articles of the Association.

This article discusses how a “share” can be severed in a beneficial joint tenancy where one co-owner operates upon his own share without severing the entire beneficial joint tenancy. It considers how a beneficial joint tenancy and a tenancy in common can exist concurrently.

Japanese Knotweed (“JKW”) was introduced to the UK in the mid-19th Century as it was popular with landscapers because of its ability to grow quickly and form dense screens. But it was soon realised it was a pernicious weed that out-competed other flora – yet it was still sold at garden nurseries until the 1930s.

Generally, the PLA Law Reform Committee is very supportive of the Code of Practice. We agree that it is important to set out expectations for the conduct of the parties under the New Code.

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The Judicial Executive Board has approved plans for a number of the specialist jurisdictions of the High Court of England & Wales to be known collectively as “The Business and Property Courts of England & Wales”.

“No case too big to be tried in the regions”

On 1 January 2012 the Dilapidations Protocol was adopted as a formal pre-action protocol under the Civil Procedure Rules.