Property, Chancery & Commercial Archives

Category: Property, Chancery & Commercial

Mar

Property, Chancery and Commercial Group Briefing – March 2020

In this edition: John Bryant analyses a recent decision on waiver of the right to forfeit which applies known principles to a demand of insurance rent; Chris Pask looks at the standard the court ...

Mar

Update – The Coronavirus Act 2020 – Residential and Commercial Tenancies

Residential and commercial leases alike have been and will continue to be affected by the coronavirus outbreak. The government’s response, in the form of the

Mar

Winding Up Petitions in times of Coronavirus (COVID-19)

If you have a pending Winding Up Petition at this time, or were contemplating issuing one, this note looks at how the courts are dealing with Petitions in light of the recent government guidance to ...

Mar

Update on Government ban on evictions and new possession proceedings

The government has announced a ban on new possession proceedings for the next three months together with a number of other measures which will affect the rental market. The measures announced so ...

Jan

Ransom Bitcoin – Further Guidance from the Commercial Court

In AA v Persons Unknown [2019] EWHC 3556 (comm) Mr Justice Bryan gave further ...

Dec

Property, Chancery and Commercial Briefing – December 2019

This edition’s contributors are all new members of Chambers who are writing for us for the first time. Their contributions reflect the breadth of our expertise at 1 Chancery Lane.

Feb

Trecarrel House Limited v Rouncefield

This article was first published in Nearly Legal HHJ Carr in a reserved judgment handed down on 13 Feb 2019 allowed the ...

Feb

Circuit Judge Level Gas Safety Certificate

Richard Cherry has succeeded in the second Circuit Judge level Gas Safety Certificate Case before HHJ Carr in Truro County ...

Feb

Wells v Devani [2019] UKSC 1106

In Wells v Devani [2019] UKSC 1106 the Supreme Court has ruled that it is possible to imply a term into an agreement to render it sufficiently certain to constitute a binding contract.

Feb

MBS v Grant Thornton – The Court of Appeal upholds decision on scope of recoverable damages in professional negligence cases

MANCHESTER BUILDING SOCIETY v GRANT THORNTON UK LLP (2019) [2019] EWCA Civ 40 This important decision of the Court of Appeal sets out valuable guidance on the application of the ...

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