Leaseholds: Ground zero

Brabners LLP | Property Law Journal | May 2022 #397
Are doubling ground rents legally fair? Jessica Parry, Edward Blakeney and James Fieldsend consider the evidence The individual tenant’s right to enfranchise a house under the LRA 1967 or claim a new lease under LRHUDA 1993 means leaseholders can effectively buy themselves out of a ground rent doubling clause. In the court of public opinion, …

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Consumer Credit Act 1974: Unfairness as justice?

Kennedys | The Commercial Litigation Journal | November/December 2011 #40
John Bruce, Donald McDonald and M ajella McGarrigle consider a Court of Appeal case on unfair relationships under the Consumer Credit Act 1974 ‘Section 140A of the Act enables the court to make an order (under s140B) if it determines that the relationship between the lender and the borrower arising out of a credit agreement …

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Unfair Terms In Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999: Where are we now?

Benson Watkins Solicitors | Property Law Journal | October 2011 #277
Heath Marshall provides an update of the extent to which the Regulations are relevant to land agreements ‘The Regulations relate to contracts between a seller or supplier, and a consumer for the supply of goods or services, and deal with contractual terms that are deemed to be “unfair” by virtue of the Regulations.’In my previous …

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