High-rise buildings – who is responsible for their safety? The Grenfell Tower tragedy sparked the most important review of building safety legislation in the history of the UK. The ‘Building a Safer Future’ report (the Report), published by Dame Judith Hackitt...
Construction Adjudications – The Do’s and Don’ts Adjudication is an alternative method for resolving disputes, without resorting to lengthy and expensive court proceedings. Originally the intention of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996...
To have or not to have – What is testamentary capacity? In England and Wales, a person making a will must be able to fully understand what they are doing at that time. Legally, this called having ‘testamentary capacity’. If a person did not have testamentary...
What Developers Need to Know About Limitation following Grenfell The objective of the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA 2022) was to reform building safety legislation and fire safety. It has become one of the most important pieces of legalisation in the construction...
Construction Disputes – Christmas Ambush In the run up to Christmas, most of us think food, tinsel and Christmas songs. For the lucky ones, your mind might be on the closure of your office given that many industries shut down during the Christmas period, if only...
Calling all landlords – serving valid notice With 4.43 million private renters in 2021, it is easy to understand why property investment is so popular. Landlords may wish to recover control of their property for many reasons, whether that is to carry out renovations,...
Scamdemic – APP fraud on the rise Authorised push payment (APP) fraud has dramatically risen over the course of the pandemic. In this article we discuss why APP fraud has increased and what to do if you are a victim of an APP scam. For the best part of two years the...
Caveats – a sword or a shield… What is a Caveat? A caveat is a written notice given by someone (the caveator) which alerts the probate registry not to issue a grant of representation until the caveat is removed. A Grant of representation is either a Grant of probate...
Is Japanese Knotweed ‘Knot’ so bad anymore? Property Disputes Are you buying or selling a property affected by Japanese knotweed? Or perhaps you have bought a house that since discovered Japanese knotweed? What is Japanese Knotweed? Japanese Knotweed was introduced...
