CPI Update 254 – July 2025

For subscribers, the July 2025 issue of the CPI Update appears attached below, and deals with the following cases:

  • Insurance rent, premiums and commission – London Trocadero (2015) LLP v Picturehouse Cinemas Ltd.
  • Analysing if land is benefited by restrictive covenants – Atkinson v Browne.
  • Rectification of a conveyancing error – Khurshid v Sam-Yorke. 
  • Escheat and vesting orders – Lulham & Anor v The Crown Estate Commissioners.
  • Costs orders in “drawn” 1954 Act renewals – Hamid v Queen Anne Street Medical Centre Ltd.
  • Undue influence in non-commercial hybrid arrangements – Waller-Edwards v One Savings Bank Plc.    

There is also coverage of:

  • The Law Commission interim statement on 1954 Act reform.
  • Updated guidance on higher-risk buildings under the Building Safety Act 2022.
  • Qualifying tenants for pre-emption rights in Wales.
  • Short fixed term leases excluded from the 1954 Act.
  • A supplement to the Law Society practice note on climate change.
  • Update on conveyancing Form TA6.
  • Announcement of a second edition of the RICS standard on service charges.

Published on 26 June 2025.