Property

Member talk: Back-to-basics on Land Law Series

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Catch up on significant topics within land law.

This series of bitesize videos, exclusive to Property Section members, is delivered by experts to support you in giving the best possible legal advice to your clients.

Break clauses in commercial leases

Understand the key legal points on break clauses in commercial leases, the video explores the conditionality in tenant’s break rights, the relationship with the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 and withdrawal of break notices in different situations.

Speaker:

  • Warren Gordon, senior professional support lawyer at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP, and a committee member of the Law Society’s Property Section Advisory Committee and Conveyancing and Land Law Committee.

Negotiating insurance and repair provisions in leases

Explore the importance of insurance provisions for both tenants and landlords, including issues on loss of rent and repair obligations.

Speakers:

  • Hannah Bayliss, trainee solicitor in the commercial property team at Wilson Browne
  • John Punni, solicitor and commercial property partner at Wilson Browne

The key differences between a lease and a license

Explore why is it important to distinguish between a lease and a licence, and when one over the other may be the more advantageous and preferred option. Our speakers also highlight what a Tenancy at Will is and the leading case of Street v Mountford [1985] which determines whether occupation is considered as a tenancy (a lease) - or a licence.

 

Speakers include:

  • Clare Harman Clark, senior counsel (knowledge) at Taylor Wessing LLP, and Chair of the Law Society’s Property Section Advisory Committee
  • Nikki Bensoor, senior associate, solicitor at NSS Legal Limited

Other videos in this series to be released later this year on the following topics:

  • commercial certificate of title from the CLLS (The City of London Law Society)
  • basics of easements

 

 

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