Giving recognition to a residents’ association at the most exclusive apartment block in Canary Wharf posed the sort of “risks that you see with the trade unions”, the First-Tier Tribunal was told last Thursday. The remark was made by the freeholder’s professional witness, chartered surveyor Bruce Maunder Taylor – and was greeted with guffaws […]
West India Quay defeats £74,560 legal onslaught …
… and wins the right to a recognised residents’ association The residents at West India Quay in London’s Docklands have won their epic battle to have a recognised residents’ association. Represented for free by Martin Boyd, a co-director of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, the residents faced a legal onslaught headed by Edwin Johnson, QC. This […]
Solicitors email at 7.41pm the evening before tribunal: Did you get our letter threatening you with libel proceedings?
UPDATE: September 6 2014. Nothing further was heard of this blatant example of legal bullying. Troubling questions emerge from last week’s First-Trier Tribunal hearing into the application by leaseholders at West India Quay to form a recognised residents’ association. Were the freeholder and his professional advisors playing the system against what they assumed – wrongly […]
