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Leaseholders are not liable to pay for the cost of remediating dangerous cladding, the Upper Tribunal has held

Diane Dickson examines the legal framework for green building, explaining the latest changes & their impact on practitioners & clients

Imogen Dodds & Jamie Sutherland consider a Hong Kong case that gives clarity on limitation periods in constructive trust claims

Incompetence, dishonesty and greed led to the Grenfell Tower fire and the deaths of 72 people, Sir Martin Moore-Bick has concluded in his final report

The government has lifted a ‘de facto ban’ on onshore windfarms in England, with immediate effect, as part of an overhaul of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)

Harrow Crown Court closed in August after surveyors present on the site for improvement works warned the building could collapse due to the use of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC).

Tim Seal questions the effectiveness of the statutory payment regime

Mixing up the words ‘begin’ and ‘commence’ is ‘imprecise’ and cannot be condoned, yet such ‘loose language’ is not enough to create separate time limits for work on the proposed Swansea Bay tidal energy lagoon, the Court of Appeal has held.

Douglas Maxwell looks to the year ahead & examines what more can be done to level up building safety

Beyond construction: C Haward Soper champions the benefits of statutory adjudication for the resolution of a wide range of disputes

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Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

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Partner appointed as head of residential conveyancing for England

DR Solicitors—Paul Edels

Specialist firm enhances corporate healthcare practice with partner appointment

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NLJ this week: Motor finance faces £11bn reckoning

The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers

NLJ this week: Gold on Awaab’s Law & digital divorce

In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives

NLJ this week: AI in the dock—courts need literacy, not fear

Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ

NLJ this week: Landlords lose their upward climb

James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights

NLJ this week: Privy Council undresses the ‘shareholder rule’

Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments

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Construction

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Gilson Gray—Jeremy Davy

DR Solicitors—Paul Edels