Liam Spender

Death knell for leasehold

Judges in St David’s Square case deliver a £31,000 unhappy New Year to ARC Time Freehold Fund, FirstPort and debt collectors JB Leitch

Court of Appeal victory over St David’s Square £500k ‘contract for eternity’ door entry system

Across from Pennycook’s office: Bad defeat for leaseholders as Court of Appeal says ‘reasonableness’ of costs means they followed a reasonable process. Not that they might be madly inflated

Losing their £5m judicial review against the leasehold reforms threatens freeholders’ long era of primacy. So, what’s next?

Judicial Review Final Day: Both sides face a nervous wait, but freeholders have already won delay

Judicial Review Day 3: Freeholders incur judge’s wrath as government opens its case

Judicial Review Day 2: Heat is on and the wigs come off in sweltering courtroom 76

Judicial Review Day 1: Bad start for freeholders but three days to go

Your full guide to this week’s judicial review by freeholders to torpedo reform to leasehold

Spender wards off attempt to frustrate his appeal over £590,000 ‘contract for eternity’ intercom systems

Freeholders face class action over insurance commissions

Leaseholders’ victory over ‘contracts for eternity’ is overturned by Upper Tribunal

MPs aghast at Liam Spender’s account of being a leaseholder litigant. It is like ‘being a laboratory animal in a maze controlled by freehold-owning landlords and their enablers’

War of attrition: FirstPort appeals St David’s Square leaseholder victory (after telling leaseholders everyone would be sharing in the win)

Black Friday for FirstPort: ALL leaseholders at St David’s Square to share £479,000 service charge triumph. And £55,000 in energy subsidies to be paid up

We just made it up: landlord pays back £120,000 for intercom costs at St David’s Square that it cannot account for (and is leased for eternity)

Victory over FirstPort at St David’s Square with £100,000s to be re-payed to leaseholders over insurance and leasing of ancient door entry system

Mr Spender goes to war over St David’s Square service charges … and landlord caves in over more than £100,000 buildings insurance commissions on eve of tribunal

Rendall & Rittner makes nearly £1 million a year in gas and electricity commissions

FCA report on insurance in leasehold blocks: what does it propose and why does it matter?

Government dumps Dame Judith Hackitt’s ‘building safety managers’, but what do the latest amendments to the Building Safety Bill mean for leaseholders?

The Building Safety Bill: what do the government’s amendments mean for leaseholders?

Morello Quarter leaseholders stall ruinous cost of waking watch, but how useful is court decision for others?

The Building Safety Bill: what’s next and what can leaseholders do?

FirstPort charges leaseholders 33% commission on temporary staff recruitment

Fees come first for FirstPort: leaseholders billed at least £39,000 for applications to the Building Safety Fund … And so it begins

Curiouser and curiouser: the Building Safety Bill has Second Reading in the Commons

Blatant pro-landlord loophole left in the Ground Rent Bill. Is this the way leasehold ‘reforms’ will go?

Building Safety Bill is a device for which the batteries aren’t included. It could be improved, if only officials would listen …

Make sure ground rents are dead and buried by improving the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill

The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill: opportunities and challenges

Leaseholders defeat landlord trying to dodge consultation over a section 20 dispute in Court of Appeal