Non-reliance statement in a lease excluding liability for misrepresentation is not reasonable under Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977

| 3rd July 2018
Sometimes sellers or landlords seek to contractually exclude liability for misrepresentation (i.e. providing incorrect information to a buyer or a tenant) in property transactions by including a ‘non reliance’ statement in the contract…
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Heterosexual couple have won the right for a civil partnership

| 27th June 2018
Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan have won their right to have a legal union by way of civil partnership rather than marriage.  The couple, who have two young children, argued successfully in the Supreme Court that the ban on different sex…
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Long Leaseholders Beware if Letting Rooms or Whole Flat Under Airbnb Style Arrangements

| 30th May 2018
In the recent case of Bermondsey Exchange Freeholders Limited v Ninos Koumetto (as Trustee in Bankruptcy of Kevin Geoghegan Conway), the flat owner had advertised his entire flat as available for bookings on the Airbnb platform. The claimant’s…
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BUYERS BEWARE - Implications of SDLT for Overage Payments in Contracts for Sale of Land

| 24th May 2018
‘Overage’ is a term connected with  land disposals, which allows the Seller to ‘clawback’ a further payment over and above the original selling price from the Buyer on a contingent event occurring such as obtaining a more valuable planning…
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