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Auctions: can you withdraw?

Andrew Turner
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Auctions can be a unique and potentially exciting way to acquire property. But a good understanding of the underlying contract law principles of offer and acceptance can avoid you getting into the type of scrape that my client got into recently. The power...

Adverse Possession - an update to the 10 year rule.

Jo Lingard
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Update If you have read our previous blogs, you may recall that we discussed the mind boggling decision made by the Upper Tribunal in Brown v Ridley . By way of a quick recap, one of the grounds you can rely upon when claiming adverse possession of land...

Porky pies off the menu

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A landlord was held liable for misleading its business tenant, McDonald’s, about needing the property back for its own future use. McDonald’s vacated the property based on what it was told. That information was subsequently exposed as being untrue. The landlord was punished.