Commercial Property Law and Practice Annual Review 2024

Areas covered

Topics to be covered in this seminar include:

• Newcomer injunctions for trespass, and multi-site protests (Wolverhampton City Council v Persons Unknown, Valero Energy Ltd v Persons Unknown, London Borough of Enfield v Snell)
  
• Mandatory Alternative Dispute Resolution (Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil Borough Council)
• Rights of light (RICS Rights of Light Professional Standard)
• Insurance and war exclusion (University of Exeter v Allianz Insurance)
• Knotweed nuisance (Davies v Bridgend)
• ‘Cynical’ conduct may prevent discharge of restrictive covenant (Fosse Urban Projects Ltd v Whyte)
• Application to modify restrictive covenant rejected (Briant v Baldacchino)
• High Street Rental Auctions – response to consultation published
• Service charges – recoverability of legal costs (89 Holland Park (Management) Ltd v Dell)
• Scope of ‘sweeper’ clauses in service charges (Tower Hamlets LBC v Lessees of Brewster House and Maltings House)
• Opposed lease renewal – business occupation (Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea v Mellcraft Ltd)
• Misrepresentation in opposed lease renewal (Mcdonald's Restaurants Ltd v Shirayama Shokusan Company Ltd)
• The ‘holding’ and the 1954 Act (Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd v Medley Assets Ltd)
• Assessment of dilapidations damages (Peachside Ltd v Lee)
• Forfeiture of lease for failure to comply with building obligation (The Tropical Zoo Ltd v LB Hounslow)
• Consequences of unlawful forfeiture (Tanfield v Meadowbrook Montessori Ltd)
• Damages for alterations without consent (Brown v Ulrick)

Speaker

• Mark Shelton, Commercial Property Management Law Trainer, CPM Law Training Limited and Author of 'A Practical Guide to the Law of Dilapidations' and 'A Practical Guide to Applications for Landlords' Consent and Variation of Leases'