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Next week is a big week for political parties but it is also a big week for tenancy deposit protection.
Two key cases, Universal Estates v Tiensia and Honeysuckle Properties v Fletcher, are both being heard together before the Court of Appeal on 7 May….

Hughes v Borodex Ltd. [2010] EWCA Civ 425
This was the Court of Appeal hearing of the appeal from the High Court decision on first appeal that we reported in March 2009. I won’t rehearse the facts, which are in the earlier post, but the issue was whether former long leaseholders who had ended up with [...]

As we have previously reported the maximum rent threshold for Housing Act 1988 tenancies is to be altered on 1 October from £25,000 to £100,000.
One of the key questions has been what the position will be for tenancy deposits taken in respect of tena…

The London Borough of Newham is, without doubt, a hard-pressed council with extremely high levels of housing need, insufficient accommodation of any sort of decent quality to meet that need, and an engaged staff, as anybody who read Ahmad would tell you.  In spite of that, they do some excellent, top notch work.  For example,  [...]

Those who know about Scottish law will be aware that it is not now practically possible to create a lease in excess of 20 years in Scotland. Additionally, feus were prohibited in 2000 and most were converted into an ownership for the vassal. A simila…