Publications: Speakers Corner

E-signatures and E-signing Platforms – Serena Glover, Warren Gordon, Alison Henry, Miri Stickland, Kathryn Oie, Bill Chandler, Tarnya Mason, Katherine Crowley

A useful guide on the use of electronic signatures setting out the best practice for using e-signature platforms for real estate transactions put together by a cross-firm working group of Real Estate PSLs/KDLs. Click here to read the article.

26th Oct 2020 Publications Read more

Andrew Walker QC –  Code operators as occupiers under the Electronic Communications Code – Solving the conundrum of Compton Beauchamp

Andrew Walker QC considers the decision of the Court of Appeal in Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure v Compton Beauchamp Estates (2019), which has met with a sustained challenge by some code operators. That may in part have been aimed at securing wider rights than were intended, but at least in some circumstances it seems to lead […]

7th Sep 2020 Publications Read more

Joanne Wicks QC (Wilberforce Chambers) – Frustration of leases: is now the right time?

Joanne Wicks QC considers how the principle of frustration applies in the worldwide pandemic. Click here to read the article.

25th Aug 2020 Covid-19 Read more

Harriet Holmes (Wilberforce Chambers) – Hearings in the time of C-19

Harriet Holmes provides a comprehensive practical summary of the things litigators should be aware of in time of Covid. Click here to read the article.

25th Aug 2020 Covid-19 Read more

Simon Allison (Landmark Chambers) – Fire Safety in Residential Blocks – Where are we now, and what are the emerging issues we will be litigating over the next 12 months?

Simon Allison provides a useful update on common themes that arise in fire safety disputes with reference to current case law. Click here to read the article.

25th Aug 2020 Speakers Corner Read more

Andrew Walker QC (Maitland Chambers) – Commercial property valuations and rental values after Covid-19 – challenges and opportunities

Following 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 more

Cecily Crampin and Julia Petrenko (Falcon Chambers) – The Scope of PD 51 Z: Court of Appeal decision in Marshall (acting by Mehmet Arkin as fixed charge receiver) v Marshall & Another

Cecily 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 more

Camilla Chorfi (Falcon Chambers) – Re: A Company (Injunction to Restrain Presentation of Petition) [2020] EWHC 1406 (Ch)

Camilla 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 more

Martin Dray (Falcon Chambers) – Not positively unjust? The difficulty in obtaining rectification of the register against a proprietor in possession.

Martin 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 more

Imogen Dodds (Falcon Chambers) – Not-so-exceptional circumstances for the purposes of PD51Z: Bromford Housing Association Limited v Nightingale [2020] EWHC 532 (QB)

Imogen 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.

2nd Jul 2020 Covid-19 Read more