News & Publications: Commercial Property
Can an email signature bind you to the sale of property?
March 31st, 2020
Commentary on the decision in Neocleous & another v Rees [2019] EWHC 2462 (Ch) Introduction Section 2 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 (‘the Act’), provides (amongst other things) that a contract for the sale of land can only be made in writing, containing all of the agreed terms in a single […]
Covid-19 Outbreak Update: Litigation – Landlord & Tenant
March 31st, 2020
On 3 March 2020 the Government set out a COVID-19 action plan, which outlined the steps that the Government has taken and future steps that it intends to take depending on how the situation develops. The plan set out the basis of emergency legislation that is being implemented in response to the outbreak. The legislation […]
Tough times for landlords
September 25th, 2017
Landlords have come under increasing pressure, and this pressure has been ramping up over the last few months with no end in sight. These truly has been a couple of years to forget for landlords and in this article, we consider some of the burdens being placed on landlords and the possible effects of these. […]
To whom does art belong?
January 13th, 2016
There is an age old question that remains unanswered: does art belong to the artist who created it; to the person who has bought it; or to everyone? In the matter of The Creative Foundation v Dreamland Leisure Limited and others [2015], the High Court had to answer a similar – although not quite as […]
Commercial rent arrears recovery
May 14th, 2014
Historically, a landlord had the common law right of distrain available when a tenant fell into arrears of rent. This was essentially the landlord’s ability to enter leased premises, without notice, to seize the tenant’s possessions and sell them to set off against rent arrears. However, the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 abolished that […]