The UK Government has recently amended permitted development rights to enable greater flexibility to shop owners to adapt to the UK’s changing high streets.

Yorkshire law firm, Ramsdens Solicitors have made a number of senior promotions.

Good news for landlords... and their solicitors.

It is very common for tenants of commercial leases to either want to, or perhaps need to, ‘get out’ of the lease.

So… you’re entering into a new Lease of commercial premises and you’ve decided not to instruct a solicitor. After all, it’s an additional cost which your business could do without and what’s the worst that could happen?

When a company is dissolved any assets owned by the company at the date of dissolution automatically pass to the Crown.

S Frances Ltd v The Cavendish Hotel (London) Ltd (2018).

As you may know, dilapidations is a term used to refer to damages or defects to a property which a tenant is generally legally obliged to put right at the end of their lease. Depending on the terms of the lease, where dilapidations do occur, it is likely that the tenant has breached various agreements, the most obvious being the repairing covenant.