CPI Update 258 – November 2025

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

  • Signed writing requirements for trusts of land – National Iranian Oil Company v Crescent Gas Corporation Ltd.
  • Reasonableness in service charge clauses – Bradley & Anor v Abacus Land 4 Ltd.
  • The consequences of not registering easements – Dhami v Western Property (London Road) Ltd & Anor.
  • More enforcement of the MEES regulations – Gilbert v Hyndburn BC.
  • Standing to register a unilateral notice – Parrott v Battye.    

There is also coverage of:

  • The Renters Rights Act 2025.
  • Removal of long-term leases from assured tenancy status.
  • The progress of provisions abolishing upward-only reviews.
  • Conveyancing consultation: reforming home buying and selling.
  • Conveyancing consultation: material information in property listings.
  • A failed judicial challenge to LAFRA 2024.
  • Express termination clauses in land contracts.
  • Land Registry practice on easements benefiting unregistered estates.
  • Land Registry practice on upgrading title.

Published on 2 November 2025.