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For more than 20 years, the CPI Update has been providing leading commercial property law firms with practical insight, risk management suggestions, updating information and commentary on all commercial property law and practice developments.

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Recent CPI Updates

  • CPI Update 238 – March 2024

    For subscribers, the March 2024 issue of the CPI Update appears attached below, and deals with the following cases: Remediation contribution orders under the Building Safety Act 2022 – Triathlon Homes LLP v Stratford Village Development Partnership. Landlord’s consent to alter – Jacobs v Chalcot Crescent (Management) […]

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  • CPI Update 237 – February 2024

    For subscribers, the February 2024 issue of the CPI Update appears attached below, and deals with the following cases: Non-payment of a deposit under an option agreement – IAA Vehicle Services Ltd v HBC Ltd. Release of restrictive covenants – Mackenzie v Cheung. Landlord’s refusal of consent to […]

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  • CPI Update 236 – January 2024

    For subscribers, the January 2024 issue of the CPI Update appears attached below, and deals with the following cases: Interpreting service charge clauses – Dell v 89 Holland Park (Management) Ltd. Implied restrictions on the sale of land – Yarnold & Ors v Ziga & Ors. Words limiting […]

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  • CPI Update 235 – December 2023

    For subscribers, the December 2023 issue of the CPI Update appears attached below, and deals with the following cases: Pre-emption rights where multiple buildings are sold – FSV Freeholders Ltd v SGL 1 Ltd. Pre-emption rights binding a buyer – S Franses Ltd v Block 6 Ashley […]

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Latest News Updates

  • Land Registry guidance on vendors’ liens

    The Land Registry recently updated Practice Guide 19 (Notices, restrictions and protection of third-party interests) to clarify its practice on how an unpaid vendor’s lien might be protected after the disposition to which the lien relates has been registered. According to Halsburys Laws: “A vendor of […]

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  • Overseas entities: the end of the transitional period

    An initial transitional period under the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 came to an end on 31 January 2023. See section 41(10) EC(TAE)A 2022 which sets out the duration of the transitional period – a period of 6 months beginning with the day […]

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  • Waiver of forfeiture by using CRAR

    In Brar & Brar v Thirunavukkrasu [2019] EWCA Civ 2032, the Court of Appeal has confirmed that the exercise of the Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery (CRAR) procedure will operate to waive a subsisting right to forfeit a lease. In this case, the tenant had fallen into […]

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  • SRA Standards and Regulations: contract races

    The Solicitors Regulation Authority introduced new Standards and Regulations on 25 November 2019 to replace the SRA Code of Conduct 2011. The Code of Conduct had itself replaced an earlier 2007 edition and, before that, the old Solicitors Practice Rules 1990. The Standards and Regulations are […]

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