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18 April 2025
Issue: 8113 / Categories: Legal News , Property , Landlord&tenant , Housing
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NLJ this week: Quarterly review of landmark property cases

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Recent caselaw in property come under the careful scrutiny of Fern Schofield and Gwyneth Everson, Falcon Chambers, in this week’s NLJ, in a new series of quarterly reviews.

Schofield and Everson cover landmark cases from December 2024, including the Supreme Court’s important clarification that the doctrine of merger does not apply to declaratory judgments and a separate case on the timeframe for adverse possession.

Other caselaw covers a range of topics from service of documents, in a decision ‘likely to become a go-to authority in first instance possession claims’, to the meaning of ‘building’. 

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys senior leadership appointments

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector

NEWS
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
The High Court has upheld a rare successful serious-irregularity challenge after an arbitrator relied on an implied term neither party had advanced
Thirty years after The Future of Law shook a profession still using fax machines, its central forecast looks increasingly less like prophecy and more like description
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
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