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A list of the top ten cases of all time

Much like London buses, cases on particular property law issues often come in clusters. This summer it was the turn of relief from forfeiture the principles of which were considered by the Court of Appeal on no less than three occasions in Magnic v Ul-Hassan and anor [2015] EWCA Civ 224, Safin (Fursecroft) Limited v Badrig [2015] EWCA Civ 739 and Freifeld v West Kensington Court Limited [2015] EWCA Civ 806. This paper considers where those decisions have taken us and tentatively questions whether that is a good place for us to be.

“Erebus Developments” has built a six-storey development. On the other side of the road, there are three residential houses.

The need for strict compliance with conditions for exercise of a break clause.

Mixed use is most certainly in vogue. We constantly read about new gleaming mixed use developments where developers have residential properties usually situated above offices, shops, restaurants or even hotels. In many respects this is nothing new and is a return to the pre Victorian way we lived. There was over the past 150 years a steady separation between commercial and residential areas and thus a division between such developments. But the pressures of population growth and the reluctance to develop in greenfield sites has led to a rapidly changing development world. The centres of our cities are now once again places in which to live.

Discretion sits at the heart of all his client relationships. These include senior politicians in the UK and Europe, CEOs of FTSE 100 companies, world champions and high-level administrators from the world of sport, top-ranking people at NGOs across the globe, and many leaders of tomorrow.

In an ever changing market proposed property sales frequently become the subject of disputes, whether by those seeking to withdraw from a deal or those seeking to enforce it. This seminar will explore some of the interesting issues that might arise in such disputes with reference to recent cases.

In March 2009 Snooze Limited (“Snooze”) leased a warehouse on the outskirts of Coventry to Dash Limited (“Dash”) for a term of 10 years. Dash was a company which was in the business of parcel delivery. It used the warehouse to store orders purchased by customers until they could be collected by freelance drivers. The main administrative workforce operated from Dash’s registered office in the city centre.

When is receipt taxed as income?

Anyone who has watched television, or, for that matter, been outside, will know that the telecommunications market is in a constantly evolving state.