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This may seem like an obvious piece of advice before buying a commercial property, but it is an extremely sensible piece of advice!  Your heart may have fallen in love with your potential next premises, but in business your head ought to agree…

A new procedure enabling planning applications for ‘permission in principle’ for small-scale residential development is due to apply from 1 June 2018.  The legislation for the new procedure was originally published in December 2017…

Recent decision by the court of appeal on implied repairing covenants in a commercial shop lease In a recent decision by the Court of Appeal (J N Hipwell & Son v Szurek 2018 ) Mrs Szurek, who was the tenant of a café, experienced…

Proving abandonment of a right of way remains as difficult as ever In a recent case a purchaser who covenanted to erect and maintain a fence between his newly-acquired strip of land and an accessway was held not to have abandoned the right of way…