Justin Bates

Israel Moskovitz loses appeal on right to charge £36 a pop for collecting his ground rents

Israel Moskovitz fails to get £30 each from leaseholders for his ground rent demands (as barrister Rebecca Cattermole, acting pro bono, sees off Justin Bates in the Upper Tribunal)

Not waiting for Gove: Kelly Tolhurst MP urges freeholder Israel Moskovitz to halt court action against leaseholders over £2m cladding and building safety costs

Scourge of RTMs, Israel Moskovitz sits as a director … of a residents’ management company in Sunderland

Academic bars Oxford City Council from entering his flat to finish major works

Ruling blasts Israel Moskovitz’s lawyers for ‘wasting tribunal time’ in legal warfare that is ‘part of a pattern’, as RTM gains control of £69,000 funds

Tribunal to rule on whether West India Quay leaseholders are subbing the energy costs of the hotel below

Lawyers offer pro bono aid to leaseholder facing QC in £24,000 dispute in Upper Tribunal

Law Commission: no problem employing barrister Justin Bates to reform right to manage, while he sets about stuffing another one …

‘If I fail to offend anyone, I will do it next time,’ Bottomley tells appalled leasehold professionals at LEASE annual conference

Can this possibly be good news?

Biggest right to manage victory ever at Century Wharf, Cardiff

MPs call for all-party group on leasehold, and to stop right to manage being thwarted

Lawyers fighting right to manage get their legal fees slashed from £28,117 to JUST £2,883!

Corrie and footie stars may face £100,000 bill in epic battle to win right to manage at No.1 Deansgate

Gill Nieuwland’s guide to property tribunal survival (1)

Israel Moskovitz ‘unappealing conduct’ reported in The Oldie

Freeholder’s barrister Justin Bates named in Parliament yesterday. And Benjamin Mire. And Tchenguiz. And Yianis. And Israel Moskovitz …

Barrister Justin Bates delays ANOTHER right to manage by nearly two years. Corrie and Man United stars among the ‘victims’

Sir Peter Bottomley condemns criminal behaviour, price-fixing, cheating freeholders, exit fee fiddles, opportunist lawyers and feeble judicial intervention

‘Don’t make the pensioners of Regent Court take you to court AGAIN, Mr Moskovitz,’ urges Bottomley

Barrister Justin Bates fails to block right to manage on the grounds that leaseholders’ company name did not include ‘RTM’ in the title

LEASE 2013: ‘Leasehold must reform, or media will sink their teeth in’

Prisk to Bottomley: what’s the evidence that the Leasehold Advisory Service is not ‘balanced’? Well, how about this for starters …

Managing agent Joseph Gurvits named in Commons – an hour after MP attends ARMA round-table conference on tougher ethical standards

Pensioners lose leasehold right to manage application for the third time

Pensioners in third escape attempt from Gurvits

Young barrister who won ‘legal torture’ case is nominated for award

Full ‘legal torture’ tribunal ruling is published

‘Legal torture’ pensioners settle for £68,500 … but two of the original leasehold applicants have since died

Pensioners in £137,000 victory