Property Training

Taken from the contents of the accompanying manuals

Landlord & Tenant Update

  1. Introduction
  2. Termination of Tenancies
  3. Break clauses
  4. Surrender
  5. Forfeiture
  6. Business Tenancies
  7. Rent Review
  8. Lease/Licence
  9. Options
  10. Remedies
  11. Landlord & Tenant (Covenants) Act
  12. Consent to alienation
  13. Discharge/modification of covenants
  14. Service of Notices
  15. Consent to alterations
  16. Miscellaneous

Land Law Update

  1. General Introduction
  2. Resulting, implied or constructive trusts
  3. Common intention constructive trusts
  4. Cases on the constructive trust exception to s 2
  5. Proprietary Estoppel
  6. Wider Agreements
  7. Exchange of Contracts
  8. Mortgages
  9. Collateral Agreements and Separate Contracts
  10. Agreement that owner will put property on market
  11. Exchange without authority
  12. Trivial Dispositions

Construction of Leases - Recent Cases

  1. Introduction
  2. Rectification by Construction
  3. Commercial Context
  4. Break Notices
  5. The Revolution in Construction
  6. Objective meaning in contract
  7. Literal approach v commercial common sense
  8. Parol evidence rule
  9. Construction and rectification
  10. Factual matrix
  11. Time of Inquiry
  12. Current approach in England

The Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995

  1. Introduction
  2. The basics
  3. Release for tenants
  4. Release of contractual guarantors of former tenants
  5. Release of tenants who are not the original tenants
  6. Transmission of covenants to assignees
  7. Contracting out
  8. Section 17 Notices
  9. Claim against current tenant and/or current tenant’s guarantor
  10. Claim against former tenant's guarantor - Must a notice be served on the former tenant?
  11. Claim against former tenant's guarantor - When does the guarantor's liability arise?
  12. Claim by assignor against assignee under indemnity covenant
  13. Crystallisation of liability of former tenant
  14. Overstatement of arrears in section 17 notice
  15. Meaning of fixed charge
  16. Impact of 1995 Act at Rent Review
  17. Lease Renewal and the 1995 Act
  18. 1995 Act and Personal Covenants
  19. Authorised Guarantee Agreements
  20. Conclusion

Service of notices

  1. The Regimes - summary
  2. The common law
  3. Wording of the Lease
  4. S 725(1) Companies Act 1985
  5. Other types of service
  6. Section 23 (1) Landlord and Tenant Act 1927
  7. s 196 Law of Property Act 1925
  8. Comparison of Statutory Regimes
  9. Royal Mail Services for Service of Documents

Land Law Update

  1. Alienation Covenants
  2. Commercial Premises and the Landlord & Tenant Act 1985
  3. Trusts and the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Part II
  4. Local Authority Landlords - Reconciling public and private law duties
  5. Rent review - Under lease rent set by rent review under the head lease
  6. Property Mediation

Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Updates

  1. Introduction
  2. Section 23 (Tenancies to which part II applies)
  3. Mixed Use Tenancies
  4. Temporary Absence of Tenant
  5. Incorporeal Hereditaments
  6. Lease or Licence
  7. Lease or Tenancy at Will
  8. Business
  9. Section 24 (Continuation of Tenancies)
  10. Continuation and conflict between notices
  11. Break of Superior Tenancy
  12. Section 25 (Termination of Tenancy by Landlord)
  13. Section 29(2) (Counternotice by tenant)
  14. Section 30(1)(a) and (b) (Opposing renewal - tenant default grounds)
  15. Section 30(1)(f) (Opposition to renewal - demolition or reconstruction)
  16. "on the termination of the current tenancy"
  17. "the landlord intends"
  18. "demolish or reconstruct"
  19. "the premises comprised in the holding"
  20. "could not reasonably do so without obtaining possession of the holding"
  21. Section 30(1)(g) (Opposition to renewal - landlord's intention to occupy)
  22. "intends to occupy "
  23. Reasonable prospects of bringing occupation about
  24. Shared occupation
  25. Companies and landlords
  26. Section 35 (terms of new lease)
  27. Break clause

Break Clauses Update

  1. Introduction
  2. Construction of break clauses
  3. Personal break clauses
  4. Conditional break clauses
  5. Continuation of Tenancy after service of break notice
  6. Renewal of Lease - Break Clause?
  7. Yielding up following exercise of break clause
  8. Form of break notice

International Land Issues

  1. Introduction
  2. Characterisation
  3. The lex situs rule
  4. General rule
  5. Formalities
  6. Material or essential validity
  7. Perpetuities and Accumulations
  8. Capacity
  9. Contracts relating to land
  10. Rome Convention 1980
  11. General effect of provisions
  12. Party autonomy
  13. Governing law in the absence of choice
  14. Scope of Applicable Law
  15. Material Validity
  16. Formal Validity
  17. Mandatory rules of another law
  18. Capacity to enter into a land contract

Chancel Repair Liability

  1. Introduction
  2. Historical survey - Chancels
  3. Historical survey - Tithes
  4. Historical survey - Dissolution of the monasteries
  5. Tithe Act 1936
  6. Nature of liabilities
  7. Land Registration Act 2002
  8. How to search for chancel repair liability
  9. How to deal with chancel repair liability

Variation of Contracts

  1. Introduction
  2. s 2(1) Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989
  3. Exchange of contracts - Formal exchange
  4. Exchange of contracts - Informal exchange
  5. Variation of a land contract
  6. Material Terms
  7. No Consideration for Variation
  8. s 2 Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989
  9. Discussion Questions

Credit Crunch Issues

  1. Introduction
  2. Forfeiture points
  3. Keep open covenants
  4. Insolvency issues - a reminder
  5. Monthly rents
  6. Service of notices

Easements

  1. Introduction
  2. Essential elements of an easement
  3. Creation of easements generally
  4. Creation by express grant or reservation
  5. Creation by implied grant or reservation
  6. Creation by section 62 Law of Property Act 1925
  7. Creation by presumed grant
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