PLA Surveys

The Law Commission has recently launched the first phase of its consultation into the potential reform of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. The 1954 Act is of central importance to property litigators and any reform will have a significant impact on our work. The PLA Law Reform Committee will be preparing a response to the consultation on behalf of the PLA and is asking members to submit answers to the consultation questions using their PLA proposed reform of the 1954 Act survey.

PLA Members are invited to provide feedback on experiences of using the County Court, so that we have evidence of current issues with the County Court that we can feed back to HMCTS to facilitate an improvement to the County Court service.

Focusing on the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (the “Act”) and the extent to which it is still fit for purpose, a new PLA project will explore different aspects of the current security of tenure regime, including the overall process and the role of the courts, contracting out, the terms of the new lease and the process for opposing renewal, and we are asking members to contribute by completing a short survey.

The Law Reform Committee will be conducting a series of surveys in the next few months.  Whilst most of these will be in relation to the Law Commission’s 14th Program the first one is in response to the Government Consultation – Commercial Rents and Covid-1 Call for Evidence.

We would like to invite you to provide feedback on your experience of using the County Courts, so that we can collate evidence of current issues with the County Courts for the purpose of an upcoming meeting with HMCTS to discuss County Court user experience.

Central London Chancery Users Group