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Recent decision by the court of appeal on implied repairing covenants in a commercial shop lease In a recent decision by the Court of Appeal (J N Hipwell & Son v Szurek 2018 ) Mrs Szurek, who was the tenant of a café, experienced…

Proving abandonment of a right of way remains as difficult as ever In a recent case a purchaser who covenanted to erect and maintain a fence between his newly-acquired strip of land and an accessway was held not to have abandoned the right of way…

Unsurprisingly, in the recent case of Braintree District Council v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and others 2018, the Court of Appeal has decided that the application of the word "isolated" within the meaning of…

As landlords look to secure the value of their investments in the midst of the current economic uncertainty, we are seeing an increasing number of portfolio re-gears taking place. The basic idea, from the landlord's perspective, is to create…