News
Tenants who make unlawful alterations have no right to enfranchise
7 May 2013
Quarter of conveyancing firms hit by negligence claims
15 April 2013
Commission backs conservation covenants to protect wildlife and heritage
28 March 2013
Features
17 May 2013
Enforcing squatters' human rights
Does the new law on criminal trespass have the potential for contravening a squatter's human rights? Sandra Clarke and Mark Pawlowski report
Update | Commercial property: TVG developments, quiet enjoyment, wind farm planning
Magnus Hassett looks at recent case developments surrounding TVGs, the meaning of quiet enjoyment and wind farm planning
10 May 2013
Update | Agriculture: chancel repair liability, water extraction licences and rent for agricultural holdings
Simon Blackburn examines chancel repair liability, water extraction licences and rent for agricultural holdings
3 May 2013
In the wrong hands: can solicitors escape liability when lenders claim for breach of trust?
When transactions go wrong and lenders claim for breach of trust, can solicitors escape liability? Christopher Stone and Alison Padfield discuss how...
19 April 2013
European briefing | Scope of damages
Paul Stanley looks at a recent case that sought to clarify whether a directive designed to protect the environment could also protect against a...
Update | Landlord and tenant: Houses of multiple occupation
Tessa Shepperson tackles the modern living phenomenon of houses in multiple occupation
Acting on housing fraud
4 April 2013
Dean Underwood and Leon Glenister examine the impact of the long-awaited Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Act 2013, and find it lacking
Are you advising on Cumulative Impact Zones?
8 February 2013
Jeremy Phillips highlights the increased risks and difficulties faced by landlords with property in cumulative impact zones
The limits of conveyancers' duties as legal advisers
22 August 2012
Negotiation of property transactions is an emotive business and solicitors need to understand the confines of their role in order to give the...
The Law Society is not protecting its members, it is misleading them
26 June 2012
The Conveyancing Quality Scheme is unnecessary and practically untested – yet the society has thrust it into the workplace and is blackmailing...
Book review | Public Rights of Way and Access to Land – 4th edition
9 March 2012
Angela Sydenham Jordan Publishing Ltd, 2010, £75 ISBN 978-1846612565
Book review | Neighbour Disputes: A Guide to the Law and Practice – 2nd edition
10 September 2011
Donald Agnew and Amanda Morris Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing, 2011, £42 ISBN: 978-0854900596
