Service Charges: What is reasonable?

Walker Morris LLP | Property Law Journal | December 2016/January 2017 #347
Karl Anders reviews recent case law concerning residential service charges, highlighting key lessons for landlords and tenants ‘Many leases contain sweeper or catch-all provisions, with the aim of enabling a landlord to obtain recovery of charges which are not expressly specified but which the landlord might want to recover from time to time via the …

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Costs: Setting a high standard

Forsters LLP | Property Law Journal | September 2016 #344
The Upper Tribunal has provided clarification on when costs will be awarded for ‘unreasonable’ behaviour. Sarah Heatley explains ‘Martin Rodger QC and Siobhan McGrath, deputy and chamber president of the First-tier Tribunal respectively, were asked to consider what constitutes “unreasonable behaviour” under r13, and how it should be applied in practice.’ The Upper Tribunal (Lands …

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