The apartment sector is heavily influenced by legal issues; here you will be equipped with the legal intelligence you need to understand the practical implications of the law in this area.
Anthea Adair, a solicitor at Davies Arnold Cooper, talks NOTB through the intricacies of something all leaseholders should be aware of and advises what can be done to prevent this last resort
In the seventh series of plain-English legal articles, Yashmin Mistry, Solicitor in the Leasehold Enfranchisement Department of Brethertons LLP highlights an area of law of interest to leaseholders – Reserve Fund and Sinking Funds.
Nicholas Kissen, senior advisor at the Leasehold Advisory Service, considers so me of the intricacies of the modern day lease and warns that in legal terms, no two leases are the same!
Mark Chick, partner at Bishop & Sewell LLP, takes a close look at February’s landmark ruling by the House of Lords, the first judgment to be made by them under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.
On 21st April 2008, Leave to Appeal to the House of Lords was granted in the Earl of Cadogan v Sportelli case. Yashmin Mistry explains...
The long anticipated decision of the Court of Appeal in a series of appeals against a decision of the Lands Tribunal that have become known, collectively, as the Sportelli appeals has been handed down. Kerry Glanville, partner at Pemberton Greenish, analyses the Court of Appeal’s decision.
RIGHT TO MANAGE - In the fifth series of plain-English legal articles, Yashmin Mistry, solicitor of Brethertons LLP highlights an area of law of interest to leaseholders – Right to Manage Companies.
Leaseholders pay substantial sums in service charges to their landlords every year, so you would expect that there would be a requirement for landlords to give in return a statement of account of how the service charges were spent. Not so, says John Mills of the Association of Retirement Housing Managers.