Forthcoming Events

Do you Think Giving Evidence is Easy?

You may be a frequent flyer or a novice, but never ever be ill prepared before entering a judicial environment. It only takes one flippant remark, a comment without suitable foundations, or one biased statement and at best you will be digging yourself and your evidence out of the quick sand. At worst you could leave the witness box with your reputation and expert witness career in tatters. The same is true of written evidence. This event is hugely relevant to anyone who appears in any judicial environment. The speakers have been invited because of their skills and experience across Landlord & Tenant, rating and CPO practice. 

Do you Think Giving Evidence is Easy?

This event is hugely relevant to anyone who appears in any judicial environment. It is running as two virtual sessions - book to attend an individual session on the dates below. 

The course will give an overview of procedures and look at recurrent issues such as: whether the hypothetical lease should include a break option, what should be the assumed length of term and whether a ‘headline rent’ is effectively excluded. It will be presented in two virtual sessions of 3.5 hours.

A Round Up of Rating Issues

This event runs as an informal discussion with a small panel of leading and informed practitioners extracting the nuances from the monthly topic. They discuss practical issues that arise, with participants in the meeting being encouraged to listen, join in, ask questions and share comments.

In Conversation...

This months topic is: 'How do property managers and business owners manage empty property'. It promises to be valuable, practical in its focus and a very informed debate that will dig into the nuances of the issue. The event is part interview, part chat style. A modern approach to CPD, held over a lunchtime, that wont interrupt your work.

Commercial leases are the foundation and essence of property management. Anyone who works in this area needs to be familiar with what they say, what they mean, and how to work them. It will explain the key commercial terms of a commercial lease, and focus on the problems the attending delegates have encountered. The course is ideal for administrators who have not been trained in the nuances of property - also PA's, secretaries, accounts personnel, facilities managers, newly qualified and APC candidates and will run as two virtual sessions of approximately two and a half hours in length and will include comfort breaks.

Confronting Change - Virtual Realities, Climate Emergency and Life after Brexit...

A delayed, but “in person” 2021 PEBA National Conference will assess the latest developments in planning and environmental law and assess policy and procedure in key areas. The conference will include papers from the judiciary, leading practitioners at the Bar and a leading academic in European law from Oxford University. 

There are significant CPO developments in hand with the Principality, and many challenges facing CPO more generally. If you do CPOs, planning, regeneration, urban renewal, road schemes, and if you work in Wales, then this event is a must. The Compulsory Purchase Association, with over 850 members, now has a dedicated Welsh National Committee, and is actively engaged with Welsh Government and the CPA national agendas.  

During the pandemic, landlord and estate services were significantly suspended which could have impacted on tenants, and with significant number of tenants not paying their lease obligations, are these, and other issues going to unleash significant discourse as the landlord remedy moratorium ends?  

This webinar considers the issues of dilapidations in the present economic climate. The lifting of restrictions on landlords’ remedies during the pandemic is on the horizon, and available methods of enforcement will be dusted off. Landlords will want to be sure they are not missing any tricks in maximising end-of-term settlements, while tenants will want to be well prepared for potential claims at lease expiry. 

Tenants are increasingly looking to rewrite leases, to reflect the impact of COVID, or simply to give flexibility to react to an every-changing world. One opportunity to do this is lease renewal, and a number of recent county court decisions have given valuable guidance on whether flexible terms are available in this way, whether it is a change to rent arrangements, a shorter term or insertion of a break option, a pandemic rent suspension clause, or another of the range of terms which tenants are now asking for. This session will outline the approach which the courts are taking on these issues and others, which in turn sets the parameters for negotiation.

With the prospect of the final lifting of almost all restrictions in 2022, commercial landlords will now be able to move forward with some effective measures. This event will discuss in detail the present and future picture of rent recovery. 

This course, by the author of ‘A Practical Guide to Forfeiture of Leases’, identifies clearly and practically the important steps to effective use of forfeiture, and will be invaluable for anyone managing commercial property.