With an extension to protect commercial tenants affected by COVID-19, there are still ways landlords can recoup certain costs, whilst supporting tenants and protecting the UK’s businesses.
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Our team discusses the most common types of dispute, compares litigation and offers further insight into why arbitration may be increasingly favoured in the years following the pandemic.
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HMRC returns to the status of preferential creditor after nearly two decades. Will this increase the risk of insolvency, or is it simply a move designed to free up more cash for the public purse?
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With CVAs on the rise, and the re-introduction of Crown preference, what will happen to the UK’s high streets? Will landlords and investors feel the worst of the impact?
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Held in private and settled out of court, the result of arbitration is a legally binding decision. Is the arbitration agreement itself or the clause binding? Carlsons Solicitors explains.
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In DSA Investments v Optima and Ors the Court was asked to consider whether an implied undertaking for damages would automatically be given by the applicant, on the grant of an ICO.
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Lawrence Jacobson joins Carlsons Solicitors today as an in-house barrister in the Dispute Resolution team.
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With a second lockdown now in place in England, businesses, their suppliers and the government are bracing themselves for a sharp increase in contractual disputes.
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It is important to fully understand what an Inheritance Act claim is, should you find yourself in the unfortunate position of having to defend against one, as an executor.
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Life can be ruthlessly efficient when it comes to punishing us for our mistakes. Just ask Amy Winehouse’s family. In her 2007 hit Valerie, Winehouse asks: Did you get a good lawyer?
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Despite a decline in the High Street retail sector, demand for commercial property is still high. But a commercial development scheme can pose all sorts of legal challenges. Daniel Russell explains why developers need the very best legal support from the start.
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The issue of domestic abuse has been in the news quite a lot recently. Here, Carlson’s Solicitors’ managing director Daniel Russell looks at the legal options available to people who believe they have been victims of abuse in the home.
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The end-of-season football drama that is the play-offs finally reached its climax this week. Critics of the one-match shoot-out promotion system say it’s nothing more than a lottery. In his latest blog, Daniel Russell examines how dispute resolution through litigation can also be a game of chance.
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Divorce is never pleasant, is often highly-charged emotionally and can be expensive. But the cost of using your own hatred to turn your child against your ex can come at an awfully high price – one most parents wouldn’t want to pay.
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It’s the biggest divorce in history, but what – if anything – has Brexit taught us about how to handle the break down of a real-life marriage?
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If I asked you to go and buy a couple of pints of milk, it would be a relatively straightforward task with very few factors to be considered, right? You’d probably check the use-by date to make sure it would last the longest possible time. And that would pretty much be that.
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If you’re living in a leasehold property then Government proposals to change the law as they relate to residential leases will have a definite – and hopefully positive – impact on how your lease is valued and the control you have over your home.
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The problem with Christmas, I’ve found, is that it’s almost impossible to escape the company of Noddy Holder. Or of Roy Wood, George Michael, Paul McCartney, David Essex or pretty much anyone who was anyone in the music biz during the Seventies and Eighties.
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If some things were easy, we’d do them ourselves. As it is, and regardless of how capable we might think we are, there are times in life when things are best left to professionals with the knowledge and expertise that come from years of training and experience.
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This week MPs voted to push forward proposed legislation that will see tenants have far greater influence over the way landlords are expected to deal with issues that are covered in tenancy agreements. The measures will tenants to bypass local authority enforcement processes.
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