Have you been locked out of your commercial property & business overnight by your landlord? Is your landlord telling you that your lease has been forfeited and you no longer have any right over the property or your business? Is your landlord trying to create a new tenancy in the […]
Option to Buy a Share of the Freehold Background The dispute relates to the events that took place in the year 2007, when the Claimants (“our client”) bought a house in a new development. After spotting the onerous terms contained in the draft Lease which provided that the ground rent […]
The current reform implements e-filing, online case management and in some cases even online dispute resolution. The revolutionary pilot scheme which allows money claims to be filed online by creditors is already in action https://www.gov.uk/make-money-claim. The new system is designed to process up to 2,000,000 civil claims a year, and to serve […]
The answer, in short, is no. Although a verbal agreement is legally binding in the eyes of the law, its legitimacy can be called into question. In a case that relies on the evidence of a verbal contract, the appointed judge is asked to decide which version of events he […]
Proposed Civil Court Changes – Shifts to online court An online court would provide the opportunity to use modern IT to create a court which will enable civil disputes of low value to be justly resolved. Essentially it would digitise the entire court system accessed by way of a common […]
On 23 June 2016 the UK decided to leave the EU, which no doubt came as a shock to everyone, including those who voted to leave. Nobody expected to wake up the following morning to see that the UK has left and that as a result the Prime Minister, who […]
