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Recent CPI Updates
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CPI Update 266 – July 2026
For subscribers, the July 2026 issue of the CPI Update appears attached below, and deals with the following cases: Terminating conditional contracts for sale – Whitburn Estates Ltd v Thirteen Homes Ltd. Contracts for sale requiring landlord’s consent – Mulberry Homes (Hazel Grove) Ltd v Scoto […]
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CPI Update 265 – June 2026
For subscribers, the June 2026 issue of the CPI Update appears attached below, and deals with the following cases: Another registration gap case (on leasehold enfranchisement) – Bennets Courtyard Ltd v Bennets Courtyard Airspace Ltd. Premiums demanded on assignment – Palmer & Ors v Council of […]
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CPI Update 264 – May 2026
For subscribers, the May 2026 issue of the CPI Update appears attached below, and deals with the following cases: Establishing an intention to redevelop under the 1954 Act – Pridewell Properties (London) Ltd v Spirit Pub Company (Managed) Ltd. Auditing service charge accounts – Miah & […]
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CPI Update 263 – April 2026
For subscribers, the April 2026 issue of the CPI Update appears attached below, and deals with the following cases: What is a building for statutory pre-emption right purposes? – SGL 1 Ltd v FSV Freeholders Ltd. Perpetuity rules in option to purchase – Crest Nicholson Regeneration […]
Latest News Updates
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Land Registry guidance on vendors’ liens
The Land Registry recently updated Practice Guide 19 (Notices, restrictions and protection of third-party interests) to clarify its practice on how an unpaid vendor’s lien might be protected after the disposition to which the lien relates has been registered. According to Halsburys Laws: “A vendor of […]
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Overseas entities: the end of the transitional period
An initial transitional period under the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 came to an end on 31 January 2023. See section 41(10) EC(TAE)A 2022 which sets out the duration of the transitional period – a period of 6 months beginning with the day […]
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Waiver of forfeiture by using CRAR
In Brar & Brar v Thirunavukkrasu [2019] EWCA Civ 2032, the Court of Appeal has confirmed that the exercise of the Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery (CRAR) procedure will operate to waive a subsisting right to forfeit a lease. In this case, the tenant had fallen into […]
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SRA Standards and Regulations: contract races
The Solicitors Regulation Authority introduced new Standards and Regulations on 25 November 2019 to replace the SRA Code of Conduct 2011. The Code of Conduct had itself replaced an earlier 2007 edition and, before that, the old Solicitors Practice Rules 1990. The Standards and Regulations are […]