Upward-only rent reviews

Across a little bit of the pond, the Government in Ireland has announced that it is abolishing, prospectively, the upward-only rent review clause. See Minister moves to ban upwards-only rent reviews. Not something that could happen here, one would have thought….?

On a separate and distinctly unconnected note, the UK Government has published a privately commissioned report on the workings of the 2007 Code for Leasing Business Premises. Click on Monitoring the 2007 Code for Leasing Business Premises.