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s.18(1) of the Landlord & Tenant Act 1927 imposes a well-known cap on the damages recoverable by a landlord for disrepair at the end of a tenant’s term. In summary, the effect of this section is to limit recoverable damages to the diminution in value of the reversion.

Good Fences Make Good Neighbours

Notices are very important in the day-to-day life of a property lawyer. A client’s legal rights will frequently be exercisable by the service of a notice. Accordingly, the service of an invalid notice may have disastrous consequences: an invalid notice might result in the irrevocably loss of a client’s legal rights and, perhaps, imply the negligence of a solicitor. It is therefore important for property lawyers to understand the radical reappraisal of the approach to the interpretation of notices that has taken place in recent years.