With all the changes impacting residential possession proceedings over the last year it has become a hot topic with everyone reaching for their crystal balls to see what the new “normal” will look like as the stay cannot be extended indefinitely! With that in mind, last Thursday saw the JPLA invite one of the Association’s […]
23rd Mar 2021
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On Thursday 11 March 2021, the JPLA hosted its inaugural event in celebration of International Women’s Day. We were joined by a panel of truly inspirational female property litigators from across the country: Brie Stevens-Hoare QC, Miriam Seitler, Naomi Pryde, Gillian Craig and Anna Mullins. We were absolutely overwhelmed by the response to the event, […]
18th Mar 2021
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Merry Christmas and happy New Year I find myself blogging as we approach the end of one of the most difficult years we have all faced. Earlier this year, the PLA was preparing to celebrate its 25th anniversary in style on HMS Belfast. Like so many other things, this event remains on hold. While we […]
23rd Dec 2020
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As I write this blog from what used to simply be my spare bedroom (now having morphed into an attempt at full blown home office suite, complete with some nominal shelving and some token books for those zoom calls!), I reflect on the past year for the JPLA. The junior arm of the Property Litigation […]
24th Nov 2020
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Hello everyone, This is your Education & Training Committee (ETC) Chair, Rebecca Campbell. I do hope that you are all keeping well. It was with a heavy heart that the PLA took the difficult decision to cancel our two flagship training events for 2020, the Annual Conference and the Autumn Training Day, due to the […]
5th Oct 2020
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Although 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
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As our Chair, Kerry Glanville, is taking a well-earned break this week, it falls upon me to reach out with a short blog during these exceptional circumstances. I hope you, your household and families across the country and globe are well and adapting aplomb to the new “norm”. We are indeed living in ‘interesting’ times. Property […]
15th Apr 2020
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Jamal Demachkie (Hardwicke) – Boundary Disputes: A quick-fire guide to Law and Practice Jamal Demachkie provides a helpful practical guide on how to deal with boundary disputes by reference to current case law. Click here to read the article.
19th Dec 2019
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Mark Twain said: “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure“. This neatly sums up how I felt on my first day as Wesbite & Marketing Committee (“WMC“) Chair in November 2016 when I was charged with the task of (amongst other things) continuing the inimitable Alison Hardy’s excellent […]
18th Nov 2019
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On 4 July 2019 JPLA and PLA members attended an ‘From Hostage negotiation to negotiating property disputes: Lessons from a parallel world‘ hosted by Phil Williams (a former hostage negotiator) and Mandy Lenton (property mediator and lead member of the CEDR faculty team). To start things off Phil carried out an exercise which was aimed […]
22nd Jul 2019
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