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Property weekly highlights—29 May 2025

Property weekly highlights—29 May 2025

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MHCLG clarifies position on roof gardens as storeys

MHCLG clarifies position on roof gardens as storeys
Supreme Court affirms developer’s right to bring negligence, DPA 1972 and contribution claims for repair costs against structural engineer (URS v BDW)

Supreme Court affirms developer’s right to bring negligence, DPA 1972 and contribution claims for repair costs against structural engineer (URS v BDW)

The following Construction news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Supreme Court affirms developer’s right to bring negligence, DPA 1972 and contribution claims for repair costs against structural engineer (URS v BDW)

MHCLG publishes working paper on site threshold reforms

MHCLG publishes working paper on site threshold reforms

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Severance of a joint tenancy

Severance of a joint tenancy

Severance of a joint tenancySeverance is the process by which a joint tenancy is converted into a tenancy in common. It is a matter of evidence...

What is a certificate of title?

What is a certificate of title?

What is a certificate of title?A certificate of title (also known as a certificate on title) is a particular species of report on title.When...

Indemnity covenants in property transfers

Indemnity covenants in property transfers

Indemnity covenants in property transfersThis Practice Note looks at when an indemnity covenant should be given in a transfer of land. For general...

Resulting trusts

Resulting trusts

Resulting trustsResulting trusts represent one of the three types of trust which do not require to be declared or evidenced in writing. The others are...

Practice notes

Reversionary leases

Reversionary leasesReversionary leases (or future leases) are granted to take effect in possession at a future date. This Practice Note looks at:•when...
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30th May
Practice notes

The Standard Conditions of Sale (5th edition: 2018 revision)—a guide to the main provisions

The Standard Conditions of Sale (5th edition: 2018 revision)—a guide to the main provisionsThe Standard Conditions of Sale (SCS), currently in their...
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30th May
Practice notes

Carrying out bankruptcy searches at the Land Charges Department

Carrying out bankruptcy searches at the Land Charges DepartmentIntroductionThis Practice Note looks at the circumstances in which a bankruptcy search...
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30th May
Practice notes

Easements—LPA 1925, s 62 and permissions

Easements—LPA 1925, s 62 and permissionsSection 62 of the Law of Property Act 1925 (LPA 1925) (section 62) is, in essence, a word-saving device....
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30th May
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Practice notes

Land registration—overriding interests, occupiers and interests which have lost overriding status

Occupiers and overriding interestsOverriding interests are interests which are binding on property even though they are not shown on the register....
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30th May
Practice notes

Lease surrenders

Lease surrendersWhat is a lease surrender?A lease surrender is a mutual agreement between the landlord and the tenant to bring the lease to an end...
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30th May
Q&As

A chargor (an individual) is granting a legal charge to a chargee (a company). Can an employee of the chargee witness the signature of the chargor?

A chargor (an individual) is granting a legal charge to a chargee (a company). Can an employee of the chargee witness the signature of the...
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30th May
Practice notes

Profits à prendre

Profits à prendreIntroduction — what is a profit à prendre?A profit à prendre is the right to take natural resources from another person’s land....
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30th May
Practice notes

Implied easements—common law

Implied easements—common lawThere are three different ways by which an easement can be implied at common law:•necessity•intended use•the rule in...
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30th May
Practice notes

Overreaching—sales by trustees of land

Overreaching—sales by trustees of landBroadly, the doctrine of overreaching enables purchasers (which includes tenants and mortgagees) in good faith...
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30th May
Practice notes

Pre-completion searches

Pre-completion searchesThis Practice Note sets out the searches that should be carried out prior to completion (pre-completion searches), including...
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30th May
Practice notes

Cautions against first registration

Cautions against first registrationA caution against first registration (referred to as a ‘caution’ throughout this Practice Note) is a means of...
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30th May
Practice notes

Land charges under the Land Charges Act 1972—registration and purpose

Land charges—registration and purposeLand charges are registered to protect the interests, in unregistered land, of a person who does not hold the...
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30th May
Practice notes

Sub-sales and assignments

Sub-sales and assignmentsA sub-sale is where A contracts to sell a property to B but, before completing the purchase from A, B then contracts to sell...
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30th May
Precedents

Deed of easement—right to lay and maintain a drain

Deed of easement—right to lay and maintain a drainThis Deed is made on [insert date]PARTIES1[insert name of the owner of the Servient Land] [of...
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30th May
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Revocable rights over common parts had to be made irrevocable on enfranchisement (4-6 Trinity Church Square v The Corporation of Trinity House)

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30th May

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Does a commercial landlord have any responsibility to a commercial tenant to ensure that the electric

Does a commercial landlord have any responsibility to a commercial tenant to ensure that the electric systems at the premises are safe at the point of demise?Unlike lettings of residential property (where the Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020, SI

Rent review—a practical lease negotiation guide

Rent review—a practical lease negotiation guideThis Practice Note considers the negotiation of open market rent review provisions in a rack rent commercial lease by a landlord and its tenant. It identifies key concerns for each party and factors that impact on valuation. It also suggests possible

Model commercial leases

Model commercial leasesModel Commercial LeasesSeveral leading property owners and associations have, over time, sought to develop standardised, plain-English forms of commercial leases. The Model

Supreme Court finds fishing limit breached right to property (R (on the application of Mott) v

Property analysis: Stephen Hockman QC and Mark Beard, of Six Pump Court, examine the Supreme Court’s decision that the appellant Environment Agency’s imposition of licensing conditions on the respondent owner of a salmon fishery which limited, without compensation, the number of fish he could catch