Annual Debate – Costs Budgeting Survey Results
Chair Keith Conway Panel Senior Costs Judge Master Gordon-Saker Chief Chancery Master Marsh HHJ Marc Dight and David Holland QC Click here to read more.
5th Nov 2014 Conference Papers Read moreChair Keith Conway Panel Senior Costs Judge Master Gordon-Saker Chief Chancery Master Marsh HHJ Marc Dight and David Holland QC Click here to read more.
5th Nov 2014 Conference Papers Read moreChair Keith Conway, Clyde & Co Panel HHJ Dight Chief Master Marsh Senior Costs Judge Gordon-Saker David Holland QC The PLA have conducted a survey of its members, cost lawyers and PBA members to gauge opinion on the recent Jackson Cost Budgeting reforms. The survey suggests a general dissatisfaction with the reforms and how the […]
5th Nov 2014 Conference Papers Read moreIntroduction Hideous Developments Limited (“Hideous”) is looking for a major expansion of its residential housebuilding activities. Hideous thinks that it has found the perfect site when an agent effects an introduction to Green & Pleasant Land Bank Limited (“GP”). GP owns a large site (“the Site”), comprising picturesque agricultural land on the outskirts of a […]
28th Mar 2014 Conference Papers Read moreIntroduction This paper aims to achieve three things: sketch an introduction to planning law for the relative novice; offer insight into certain discrete areas of planning law of particular relevance to property litigators; and where appropriate, update regarding recent (relevant) developments. It is hoped that the paper will encourage discussion at the seminar session itself. […]
28th Mar 2014 Conference Papers Read moreThe problem Mrs Fry has a shared ownership lease in Oxford granted by Laurie Housing Association, for a term of 99 years at a rent of £4,063 pa paid quarterly and a 50% share. Her rent arrears are £2,000 and she has owed them for 6 months. The possession hearing is 2 days away and […]
28th Mar 2014 Conference Papers Read moreIntroduction Damages for reinstatement are a background melody: There are lots of things that I really do not understand, but that has never stopped me from lecturing about them in the past. One of the things that strikes me as seriously curious is the lack of cases concerned with breach of the covenant to reinstate […]
28th Mar 2014 Conference Papers Read moreMediation Experience Gary is a full-time property mediator and has extensive experience, both as a barrister and as a mediator, in landlord and tenant disputes (commercial and residential) and disputes involving boundaries, rights of way and other easements, restrictive covenants, property joint ventures, co- ownership and other areas of property law. He also has a […]
28th Mar 2014 Conference Papers Read moreMy brief this year (as in previous years) is to focus on the top 5 or so property law cases decided in the previous twelve months. It is fair to say that as regards significant property cases, the past year has been somewhat barren when compared with earlier years, so that the selection task has […]
28th Mar 2014 Conference Papers Read moreIntroduction These days the majority of legal professionals are very specialist in their area of practice. The better the quality their firm / chambers and work they do greater the likelihood and degree of specialism. Solicitors’ and Barristers’ familiarity with developments in the law are likely to be confined to those cases that impact most […]
28th Mar 2014 Conference Papers Read moreIntroduction The future of central London Civil Justice Centre The move of Central London Civil Justice Centre (“CLCJC”) to the Thomas More Building to become part of the High Court campus together with the Chancery modernisation review provides an ideal opportunity for the CLCJC Chancery List to become an integral part of the Chancery Justice […]
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