Land and Environment

• "Hot Property" Newsletter

• Mills & Reeve Newsletter

• Accommodation for Sick Asylum Seeker

• Court rules on when councils must provide accommodation to sick asylum seekeres.

• Adverse Possession Deadline Looms

• 13th October is the deadline for most Adverse Possession claims.

• Application of 4 Year Rule in Planning Law

• Woman wins appeal and right to breach change of use condition after only 4 years of breach

• Assured Tenant Is Tolerated Trespasser After Possession Order

• How do you treat an assured tenant after possession order?

• Bankrupt Charging Order Enforcement

• Trustee in bankruptcy can enforce charging order despite delay

• Block Tenant Not Flat Tenant

• Tenant of block can't renew long lease

• Business Tenant Can Be Evicted From Residence

• Landlord can evict business tenant from residential part of premises - updated by David Swarbrick of Lawindexpro

• Business Tenant Suffers Costs

• Tenant Suffers Costs After Changing Mind About New Tanancy

• CML Politics Pages Re-Launched

• CML have some interesting stuff apart from the Handbook

• CML Wants HIPs Delay

• CML tells Government to wait and see with HIPs

• CPO - Council Loses

• 13th October is the deadline for most Adverse Possession claims.

• Care Proceedings Changes In The Wind

• Government to improve care proceedings for children by giving parents more legal advice?

• Clogs on Equity of Redemption

• Consilio article about Equity and Clogs

• Commons Registration - The Process For Removing

• Consideration of the correct procedure for rectifying Commons register to cancel registration

• Commons Searches To Change Soon

• Commons Searches to be part of local searches from 1st June

• Constructive Trusts - Oral Agreement

• Constructive Trusts Case - Payer takes most

• Correct Form for Possession Order

• Court rules on form of possession order

• Council To Rehouse 17 Year Old

• A council's attempt to use mediation process to deprive 17 year old of right to re-housing is overturned

• Critical Land Registry IT Error Surfaces

• Land Registry announces mistakes - all back in July or August but still may be relevant; and what does it say about LR IT? Whatabout Electronic Conveyancing now?

• Cypriot Land Deal in English Courts

• Greek Cypriot fails in case about land in Turkish Cyprus

• Don't Over-React To Minor Mistakes

• Even if the lawyer makes a mess of it you should not strike out the claim

• EEA Nationals Have Benefits Restricted

• GOvernment acts to restrict rights of EEA nationals to benefits

• Environmental Impact Assessments

• Arts 2(1) and 4(2) of Directive 85/337 on the assessment of environmental effects

• Estate Agents in Government Sights

• Environmental assessments are vital

• Estate Agents in Government Sights

• New powers to control and improve estate agents

• Family Court Decision Determinative?

• Can a consent order affect a homelessness application

• Fixed Charge or Floating Charge - Its All In The Small Print

• Complicated scheme involving solicitors' firm intervened in by Law Society

• Freeholder Loses Out After Not Giving Notices

• Everyday story of leasehold enfranchisement complications

• Gas Company Not Liable For Actions of Predecessor

• Who will clear up the mess left by private gas company before 1948?

• Gipsies Lose Planning HR Case

• No Human Rights breach in not recognisinf caravans as dwelling houses

• Government Bites on HIPs

• Office of Fair Trading threatens estate agenst over HIPs - what is fair about HIPs?

• HIP Forms From Law Society

• The Law Society is leading the wya in providing information in HIP transactions

• HIPs From 10 September 2007

• 3 bedroom Houses To Suffer From HIPs

• HIPs Plans Scaled Down

• The Law Society and the Governmemnt on the reduced HIP

• HIPs Regulations Published In a Blaze Of . . . Silence

• Without any fanfare the HIP regulations are published and the doom of the property market is sealed

• HIPs Survey

• Hwlp the Law Society gain amo about HIPs

• HIPs Will Definitely Start on 1st June

• Minister tells Law Society how it will be

• HMRC Have SDLT problems

• HMRC admit to SDLT collection problems

• Holding over Tenant Can Be Evicted

• Social Housing Landlord manages to evict tenant

• Home Information Pack Latest - June 22

• HIP Latest - Regulations, Dry Run and Energy Ratings for houses

• House Prices Cool and HIPs Heat Up

• HIPs activity grows as House Prices fall - new government HIP website

• House of Lords To Debate HIPs

• Will 22 May see the end of HIPs?

• House of Lords on Village Green

• How does village green registration benfit the neighbours?

• Housing Authority To Allow Overcrowding?

• If you live in an overcrowded place it may not be enough to make you homeless

• Housing Dispute Resolution Consultation

• How to respond to the Housing Dispute Resolution?

• How Early Is A Waste Disposal Licence Necessary?

• If a waste plant processes something which will eventually be disposed of, even if not simultaneously at the site, it needs a licence

• Illegal Easements On Common Land

• 120 year old right of way useless

• L & T Compromises

• Estoppel after action possession compromise

• Land Registry Cuts Offices

• Office cuts at Land Registry

• Land Registry Guide About Joint Tenants

• New leaflet from Land Registry about joint tenancies

• Land Registry News June 22

• Latest Land Registry Changes - Leases, copies and more

• Land Registry Wants To Prove Identity - At Last?

• Land Registry considering changing 2003 rules, for the better?

• Landlord Can Set Review Procedure

• Statutory procedure not needed when agreement sets out rent review process

• Landlord Defeated By Fraudulent Assignment

• Landlord not allowed possession simply because there had been a fraudulent assignement

• Landlord's Duty to Replace Unsafe Areas

• Landlord right not to replace glass door?

• Landlords Wins on Rent for Empty Premises

• Cheeky tenant has to pay

• Latest LR Guidance on Lease Prescribed Clauses

• Land Registry latest about prescribed clauses in leases

• Law Soc Complains About HIP Dry Run Plan

• The Law Society and the Governmemnt fall out about HIP dry run

• Law Soc Complains About HIP Dry Run Plan - UPDATED

• The Law Society and the Government fall out about HIP dry run

• Law Soc Hypocritical HIP Pack Hype?

• The Law Society hypes its HIP pack

• Law Society Deputy VC Elect is Pro HIP

• New Deputy Vice President Elect Backs HIPs

• Lawindexpro - Landlord Cases

• The latest case from lawinexpro and the leading cases

• Liability for Old Environmental Damage

• Contaminated site to be cleared by successeor of polluter

• Little Noticed Land Charges Fee Change

• Now Councils can charge what they want for land charges whereas before they could not make a profit

• Millions of Cohabitees Affected

• House of Lords tells unmarried couples to get real

• Mines and Minerals Guide

• New Practice Guide about Mines and Minerals

• More Controls For Landlords

• New powers to improve management of private rented sector properties through licensing

• New Land Registry Fees

• New LR Fees from August

• Not Possible To Avoid Adverse Possession With Lease Offer

• Owner cannot claim to be landlord of trespasser

• Notice on 364 day Assured Shorthold

• Notice period clarified on 364 day tenancy

• OFT Goes For Estate Agents

• Making it easier to pick a good estate agent

• Onerous Waste Plant Permit Allowed

• Environment Agency wins in permit case at waste plant

• Part Residential Lease Hard to Forfeit!

• Court of Appeal decides how to deal with mixed use lease

• Party Wall Appeals Clarified

• How do you appeal when a party wall decision is wrong?

• People Ignorant of HIPs

• Six in Ten Blissfully Ignorant of Drastic Changes to Housing Market Law Society Press Release 30 May 2006 New research published today shows most people are totally ignorant of the biggest ever shake-up of the property market, which is only...

• Planners to Protect

• Planners get green guidance

• Planning Law Influenced by Law Society

• Law Society blows its own trumpet on planning law.

• Planning Reforms For Town Centre Improvements

• Governments issues new planning laws which actually sound reasonable.

• Possesion Proceedings Stats 2006

• Not good Possession Stats

• Possession Cases On The Rise

• Possession proceedings go up

• Possessions On The Rise

• New statistaics show increase in possession cases

• Possessions On-Line Site of the Week

• Courts Service site to help get bad payers out of the house

• Repossessions Up Again

• Latest stats show rise in repossessions

• Restrictive Covenants Case Shocks

• Planning permission is not a good reason for changing a restrictive covenant

• Right To Buy Rights

• Injunction refused to tenant trying to exercise right to buy.

• Right of Light Breaches Lit Up

• Damages or Injunction when Light Right Breached - Who Decides?

• Right of Light and Injunctions

• How do you calculate damages when the right of light is lost?

• Rights of Access Can Grant Parking Rights - in Scotland

• House of Lords allows parking in Scotland

• Rights of Way Regulations

• Motorised Rights of Way extended

• Rylands v Fletcher - Classic Nuisance

• Rylands v Fletcher - the classic Nuisance judgment from Lawindexpro

• SDLT Changes To Be Mainly On Line

• Revenue announces changes to SDLT rules.

• SPLINTA Proves HIPs Will Be Useless

• SPLINTA research shows relative uselessness of HIPs

• Service Charges Protection

• Definition of dwelling considered in service charge case

• Social Housing Intro Tenancies

• Social Housing Tenants' Rights Reduced

• Son May Stay After Mother Tenant Dies

• Landlord loses on technical succession point

• Stamp Taxes Online Upgrade Downtime

• Tax Office warns of downtime

• Temporary Homelessness - LA Powers

• What should the LA consider when faced with intentional temporary homelessness?

• Tenancy Successor Revisited

• Joint tenant cannot be successor tenat

• Tenant Loses Right To Buy

• Tenant forfeits right to buy when breaches tenancy

• Tenants Deposit Scheme Leaves Solicitors Seeing Red

• The Law Society fights for solicitors' rights over Tenants' Deposit Scheme

• Tenants Disappointed

• Tenants cannot benefit from drogation of LA rights if the LA changes its mind

• The Effect of Possession Orders on the Right To Buy

• Tenants retain Right to Buy despite possession order?

• When Can You Claim Compensation For Noise

• Compensation claim succeeds on appeal and neighbours get more compensation for noisy road

• Whinash Windfarm Success

• Whinash Windfarm Halted

• Wide Definition of "Any Premises"

• Court of Apppeal supports Landlord to allow redevelopment of building