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Property Disputes weekly highlights—5 June 2025

Published on: 05 June 2025

Table of contents

  • Repairing obligations and dilapidations
  • Supreme Court affirms developer’s right to bring negligence, DPA 1972 and contribution claims for repair costs against structural engineer (URS v BDW)
  • MHCLG clarifies position on roof gardens as storeys
  • Business tenancies
  • Law Commission publishes interim statement on reforming business tenancies
  • Service charges
  • Upper Tribunal rules Brambridge House leaseholders are not liable for certain service charges (Weinberger v BHRM Ltd)
  • Contractual issues
  • High Court rules contract invalid, or alternatively obtained by undue influence (Quick Property Sale Ltd v Solaja)
  • Enforcing security and property insolvency
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Article summary

This week's edition of Property Disputes weekly highlights includes: Supreme Court decisions on the Building Safety Act 2022 and on undue influence, clarification from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on roof gardens when assessing if a building is higher-risk, High Court decisions on a rates mitigation scheme and the validity of a contract, and a Court of Appeal decision in which it was held that section 234 of the Insolvency Act 1986 is inapplicable for repossession when property receivers have already been appointed.

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