Party Walls
- Adverse Possession, Boundaries and Easements
- Agricultural Tenancies
- Business Tenancy Renewal
- Commercial Landlord and Tenant Disputes
- Contracts of Sale, Options and Rights of Pre-emption
- The Electronic Communications Code
- Estoppel and Equitable Rights
- Highways
- Land Registration
- Leasehold Enfranchisement
- Mortgages, Charges, Charging Orders and Securitisation
- Nuisance and Environmental Disputes
- Party Walls
- Property Development
- Rating and Valuation
- Residential Tenancies
- Restrictive Covenants
- Rights to Light
- Squatters and Protesters
- Trusts of Land
- Village Greens, Commons and Manorial Rights
- Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel
Landmark’s property team deals with all aspects of the law relating to party walls and the interpretation of the Party Wall etc Act 1996. Two members of the team are authors of the leading modern practitioners’ textbook on the Act.
The team has advised building owners, adjoining owners, surveyors and third parties in relation to all aspects of the Act. Questions frequently dealt with include:
- Whether the Act applies;
- Challenges to awards by way of appeal or declarations of invalidity;
- Claims for injunctions where the notice procedures have not been followed;
- Whether notices under the Act have been validly served;
- Time limits;
- Technical construction issues related to works under the Act.
Clients have included corporate developers, individual building and adjoining owners, and surveyors.