Unless you have been living under a rock for the last three years, you will have heard something about the corruption case in Brazil that has led to the impeachment of the last president, the conviction of the one before and an investigation of the current one.
As the anniversary of the tragic Grenfell Tower fire approaches, Arthur Moore of Hardwicke examines Firstport Property Services Ltd v Various leaseholders of Citiscape LON/00AH/LSC/2017/0435, in which the First-tier Tribunal considered whether a managing company or leaseholders were liable to pay for measures to prevent a tower block fire. This article was first published on Practical Law's Property Blog.
On 14 April, Guy Fetherstonhaugh QC’s EG column, “What on earth is ground rent for?”, set out why, in his view, there were many good reasons to abolish “pointless” ground rent on new leases, writes Simon Allison.