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 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.
2nd Jul 2020 Covid-19 Read moreTricia Hemans considers the Law Society’s recent guidance in relation to virtual execution of documents and the use of e-signatures. Click here to read the article.
2nd Jul 2020 Covid-19 Read moreAnthony Tanney analyses the Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Arkin v. Marshall [2020] EWCA 620 (Civ): A claim by receivers against mortgagors for possession of the mortgaged property. The issue for the Court of Appeal concerned the effect on those proceedings of the stay imposed by the emergency coronavirus practice direction, PD51Z. Click here […]
2nd Jul 2020 Covid-19 Read moreJoe Ollech discusses the voluntary set of principles set out in the government’s new Code of Practice introduced in light of the Pandemic. Click here to read the article.
2nd Jul 2020 Covid-19 Read moreAndrew Walker QC explores why there may now be little time for the voluntary re-scheduling of lease payments due on and after the June 2020 quarter day. Click here to read the article.
22nd Jun 2020 Publications Read morePaul De La Piquerie provides practical guidance on how to use section 49 of the Law of Property Act 1925 to compel reluctant vendors and purchasers of property to comply with their contractual obligations. Click here to read the article.
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