major works

Emergency fire safety works and securing dispensation from consultation

Fire safety works are moving quickly up the agenda for RMCs and their managing agents.  Cladding issues may…

10 clauses managing agents need to understand in a long residential lease

If you’re the sort of person that has little patience with an instruction manual, you probably ought to…

Aster Communities v Chapman: does this dispense with Daejan?

Not quite, explains Jeremy Weaver of Brady Solicitors, but the Aster case will make life harder – and…

Cladding remediation – how will the government’s new £1bn fund work in practice?

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, delivered his first Budget speech yesterday (11 March 2020) and it…

Avon v Cowley: Court of Appeal upholds Upper Tribunal decision

Last year we wrote about the Avon Ground Rents case. This concerned the reasonableness of major works contributions…

S.20 major works consultations and the question of waiver

The Upper Tribunal case of Stemp & Anor v 6 Ladbroke Gardens is a useful reminder to managing…