Commercial Client Articles

The government is planning to set up several New Town Development Corporations to build thousands of homes across the country over the next five years. The corporations will be accountable to local councils and be responsible for new towns and garden...

In a home-owner’s subsidence claim, where relief was sought under the Coal Mining Subsidence Act 1991, the question before the court was whether it was reasonably practicable to demolish the house and build a larger one. In White v The Coal...

Creating a more effective land registration system is firmly on the Law Commission’s agenda. In a project designed to update the Land Registration Act 2002 – which governs registered land – the Law Commission first published a consultation...

The refusal by Milton Keynes Council of a tenant’s request to buy the freehold of a property was upheld by the Upper Tribunal, overturning the decision of the First-tier Tribunal. In the case of Milton Keynes Council v Bailey , the Upper Tribunal...

In a case before the Court of Appeal, a tenant argued that an index-linked rent review clause contained in a reversionary lease of offices in Bromley was ambiguous. Concurring with the first instance judge, in the case of Trillium (Prime) Property GP Ltd v...

A director has been banned for seven years after repeatedly failing to pay his workers the minimum wage. Shakil Ahmed was a director at Euro Contracts Services Limited (ECS), which supplied labourers to farms. The farms paid a fee to ECS, which was then...

A developer has been ordered to pay an extra £750,000 for land that was sold subject to the condition that the price would increase if planning permission for houses was granted. The issue arose after the developer purchased property from a landowner...

A director breached her legal duties when she transferred company assets to herself during a period of financial difficulty. Julie Anne Davey ran a company called Angel Group Ltd or AGL, which had three subsidiaries. The businesses specialised in...

If a landlord doesn’t want to carry out repairs on a commercial property unless he has a tenant waiting to move in, is he entitled to have the rateable value reduced? A recent case saw landlord Christopher Shaw appeal after a valuation tribunal...

Companies disputing invoices from suppliers need to ensure any documents they produce to support their case are legally watertight. Failure to do so could prove costly, as shown in a recent case involving MI Electrical Solutions Ltd and Elements (Europe)...