Developers, beware of the rentcharge!
When selling freehold plots on an estate, developers may wish to create positive covenants for future owners to perform e.g. payment towards maintaining a private [...]
Seven reasons to update your shareholder agreement
The shareholder agreement is often one of those documents that startups sometimes forgo or even ‘bootstrap’ by cutting and pasting from other documents without taking [...]
It’s not fair! When shareholders claim unfair prejudice
Now that hotels, pubs, bars, and restaurants are back in business, leisure and hospitality operators are looking for ways to attract enough customers to remain [...]
Extending eating areas into outdoor space – issues for landlords and tenants
Now that hotels, pubs, bars, and restaurants are back in business, leisure and hospitality operators are looking for ways to attract enough customers to remain [...]
Covid-19 policy for e-commerce and amendments to delivery and refund policies
Coronavirus has seen a large increase in online shopping and businesses have had to respond just as quickly to adapt to the new norm. Part [...]
Release of lockdown: continuing or ending homeworking
Although lockdown is easing, government guidance advises people to continue to work from home if possible. Meanwhile the media is reporting that some employers are [...]
Aster Communities ordered to pay costs of tenant’s expert in service charge dispute.
ASTER COMMUNITIES v KERRY CHAPMAN AND OTHERS [2020] UKUT 0177 (LC) See the full judgment here: http://landschamber.decisions.tribunals.gov.uk//Aspx/view.aspx?id=1618 The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) (“UT”) confirms the [...]
Keeping coronavirus redundancies fair and the alternatives
The Government’s coronavirus job retention scheme (CJRS) has helped many employers keep their staff. But, the winding down of the CJRS and the grim economic [...]
Are your contracts fit for purpose in this new world of business?
If you are one of the thousands of business owners in the UK who have had to adapt during the past couple of months to [...]
Valuation Office ordered to refund £430m in business rates for ATMs
Cardtronics UK Ltd and others v Sykes and others (Valuation Officers) [2020] UKSC 21 full judgment available here: https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2018-0225.html The Supreme Court has dismissed the [...]