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The Message: Parking fines are valid if commercially justifiable and fair.

The definition of land and ownership of property

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?

County Councils are under a duty to make clear if land could be part of the public highway.

Completed on behalf of the Property Litigation Association (PLA).

In 2008 Gordon Ramsay’s Company, Gordon Ramsay Holdings International Limited, took a lease of the York & Albany Pub and Restaurant in Parkway in Camden Town for a term of 25 years at an initial rent of £640,000 per annum. The obligations of the Company were personally guaranteed by Gordon Ramsay himself pursuant to a written Guarantee, or were they?