During the summer, the PLA’s Law Reform Committee raised a number of queries with the Insolvency Service regarding certain measures in the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 affecting property owners. A copy of the Insolvency Service’s response can be found here.
17th Sep 2020 Law Reform Committee Read moreAlthough we have had to make many changes to the PLA calendar over recent months, the various committees of the PLA have continued to work hard on your behalf. Our Law Reform Committee, in association with their PBA counterparts, were impressively quick of the mark in persuading the Master of the Rolls to rewrite Practice Direction 51Z which would […]
6th Aug 2020 Blogs Read moreWine-tasting Evening in aid of Landaid – (A joint event with the Commercial Real Estate Legal Association (CRELA)) Now cancelled – new date in better times This event should have taken place in the viewing lounge at Level 32 of One Blackfriars in London on Thursday 14 May (postponed previously from 13 February!). The committees […]
5th Aug 2020 News Read moreThe Covid-19 pandemic has affected everybody. This webinar, held on 22 July 2020, organised by the PLA’s well-being sub-committee and delivered by Ruth Cooper-Dickson of wellbeing consultants, Champs, explored the impacts of the pandemic and provided PLA members with the tools for mental wellbeing and resilience as we gradually move out of lockdown. We hope […]
23rd Jul 2020 News Read moreClick here to read the report.
17th Jul 2020 Law Reform Committee Read moreFollowing publication of new RICS Covid-19 valuation assistance to surveyors, Andrew Walker QC considers the current difficulties for commercial property valuations, and landlords’ prospects of maintaining rental values for commercial properties in badly hit sectors of the economy. Click here to read the article.
8th Jul 2020 Covid-19 Read moreCecily Crampin and Julia Petrenko consider the implications of Marshall (acting by Mehmet Arkin as fixed charge receiver) v Marshall & Another[2020] EWCA Civ 620 in which the Court of Appeal dismissed the challenges made to Practice Direction PD 51Z and confirmed that the stay applies even to directions agreed by the parties, though the […]
2nd Jul 2020 Covid-19 Read moreCamilla Chorfi summarises the recent decision in Re: A Company (Injunction to Restrain Presentation of Petition) [2020] EWHC 1406 (Ch) in which the Court granted an urgent ex parte application to restrain the presentation of a winding up petition by a landlord of a high street retailer. Click here to read the article.
2nd Jul 2020 Covid-19 Read moreMartin Dray discusses Rees v 82 Portland Place Investments LLP [2020] EWHC 1177 (Ch), which shows that there is no guarantee that an innocent party who loses out by reason of a Land Registry mistake will prevail in securing rectification of the register in its favour. Everything may boil down to whether it is positively […]
2nd Jul 2020 Covid-19 Read moreImogen Dodds provides an update on Bromford Housing Association Limited v Nightingale [2020] EWHC 532 (QB) in which the High Court considered the circumstances in which it will be appropriate to lift the stay imposed by PD51Z in order to hand down judgment. Click here to read the article.
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