Annual Reviews

This is a brief update on restrictions on the issue of winding up petitions and making of winding up orders in light of the recent publication of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill 2020 The proposed changes are part of a wider revision of...

What happened? Our client, a café business, entered into a contract to take over an existing lease and agreed to pay a significant cash premium for doing so. Before the contract was completed, the coronavirus pandemic hit.  The government...

In light of Covid-19 the Government, by Section 82 of the Coronavirus Act 2020 placed a moratorium on landlords of commercial premises forfeiting leases to commercial tenants until 30 June 2020.  Subsequently such landlords served statutory demands on...

Can a landlord of a block of flats give permission for a tenant to carry out alterations prohibited under that tenant’s lease, when it owes an obligation to the other tenants in the block to enforce that prohibition? Facts 11-13 Randolph Crescent...