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- - Richard Handley
  - Consultant Solicitor
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- Departments
  - Commercial Conveyancing
  - Corporate and Commercial
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  - 10 Royal Crescent
  - Cheltenham
  - Gloucestershire
  - GL50 3DA
  - 01242 574244
  - 01242 221631
  - 7453 Cheltenham

Richard Handley

Consultant Solicitor

Richard has been a solicitor for 38 years, 36 of them as a leading partner in the biggest firm in the county. He has been involved in some of the major projects in the region throughout that time, instructed by major house builders, developers, landowners, landlords and tenants.

He used to be a sportsman and now talks a good game. He is to DIY what the Titanic was to the iceberg. He likes to think he is amusing and a few agree. He knows nothing about everything.

BREAK CLAUSES: A TRAP FOR THE UNWARY TENANT

Tenants of commercial Leases must be extremely careful when exercising a break option under their Lease. Quite often the break clause in the Lease is drafted heavily in favour of the landlord and the break clause itself is conditional on certain...

Dangerous cladding - who pays?

Following the Grenfell tragedy last year, there has been panic amongst owners of blocks of flats up and down the country prompted by the realisation that their own blocks may be clad in the same apparently lethal material that appears to have triggered the...

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BREAK CLAUSES: A TRAP FOR THE UNWARY TENANT

Dangerous cladding - who pays?