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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

November 15, 2019 By Admin3 5 Comments

By Harry Scoffin Controversial freeholder Israel Moskovitz and his legal team were reprimanded in the property tribunal last month for failing to hand over £69,633.72 to a right to manage company. Bridge Court South RTM, 24-flats in Leyton, north-east London, won back half the contingency fund from the control of Mr Moskovitz’s manager Y and Y […]

Filed Under: Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Latest News, News, Slider2 Tagged With: Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Reserve fund, right to manage, Y and Y Management

What to do about the Grenfell cladding scandal, asks Oxford conference

September 13, 2019 By admin

Victoria, one of Australia’s eight states/ territories, has put aside £330m to remediate Grenfell cladding: England has come up with £200m By Sebastian O’Kelly Mansfield College, Oxford, hosted a fascinating one-day conference yesterday into the Grenfell tragedy and its devastating repercussions to flat owners in blocks with similar cladding across the world. Lawyers predominated, but […]

Filed Under: Cladding crisis, Latest News, News Tagged With: Grenfell cladding, Justin Bates, Professor Susan Bright

Battle for Canary Riverside resumes after court appointed manager steps down

June 7, 2019 By admin

The toxic disputes between leaseholders at Canary Riverside and their freehold owner John Christodoulou had another airing over three days in the property tribunal this week. At issue is the decision of Alan Coates, the highly respected veteran property manager, to stand down on health grounds from his section 24 court-appointed role to manage the […]

Filed Under: Canary Riverside, Latest News, News, West India Quay Tagged With: Alan Coates, Bruce Ritchie, Canary Riverside, Canary Riverside Estate Management Limited, Circus Apartments Limited, David Marsden, Duncan Rendall, Felix Keen, FirstPort, John Christodoulou, Justin Bates, Marathon Estates, Rendall and Rittner, Section 24 manager

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

December 19, 2018 By admin

Monaco-based freeholder John Christodoulou was in tribunal at the beginning of the month fighting the court appointed manager at Canary Riverside, last week he was back again in a row with leaseholders at West India Quay. The two prime London Docklands sites, both near Canary Wharf, have witnessed repeated acrimony between the residential leaseholders and […]

Filed Under: John Christodoulou, Justin Bates, Latest News, News, West India Quay Tagged With: Canary Riverside, East Tower Apartments Limited, John Christodoulou, Justin Bates, Lina Matsson, West India Quay

Officials fail to stop LKP publishing legal opinions on flawed reform of Recognised Tenants’ Associations (RTAs)

December 16, 2018 By Admin2

A last minute attempt to stop LKP from publishing three legal opinions extremely critical of the government’s bungled reform to Recognised Tenants’ Associations failed last week. The government introduced a statutory instrument in October that has actually made the position of leaseholders worse. The failing was referenced in the Commons by Sir Peter Bottomley with […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, Recognised Tenants' Association, Slider2, West India Quay Tagged With: James Brokenshire MP, Justin Bates, Law Commission, Lord Young, Martin Boyd, MHCLG, Rebecca Cattermole, Sir Peter Bottomley

War of attrition continues between Canary Riverside freeholder John Christodoulou and the court-appointed manager …

December 7, 2018 By admin

Two years after the leaseholders at Canary Riverside thought that they had escaped from the clutches of freeholder John Christodoulou after they secured a court-appointed managing agent, the legal wrangling continues. This week saw the 19th day in tribunal since Monaco-based freeholder John Christodoulou lost control of the site’s management in October 2016, when his […]

Filed Under: Canary Riverside, John Christodoulou, Latest News, News Tagged With: Alan Coates, Canary Riverside, Canary Riverside Estate Management Limited, HML Holdings, John Christodoulou, Justin Bates, Octagon Overseas Limited, Rebecca Cattermole, Section 24 manager, Yianis

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

October 31, 2018 By admin

Solicitor Mari Knowles and barrister Justin Bates have offered their services pro bono to leaseholder Michelle Baharier who is fighting a £24,000 Upper Tribunal case against a QC. The lawyers, who are both working on the leasehold reform agenda at the Law Commission, stepped in after reading the case on the LKP website today. Michelle […]

Filed Under: Justin Bates, Latest News, Law Commission, Local authority leasehold, LVT/Property Chamber Survival, News, Philip Rainey QC, Tribunal triumphs ... and defeats Tagged With: Harriet Harman MP, James Brokenshire MP, Justin Bates, Mari Knowles, Michelle Baharier, Philip Rainey QC, Southwark Council

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

October 5, 2018 By admin

The Law Commission has rejected a concern raised by LKP that barrister Justin Bates is employed to reform right to manage legislation while engaged by an offshore landlord to try to prevent yet another one. Mr Bates was a controversial choice by the Law Commission in the view of some leaseholders as he has established […]

Filed Under: Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Latest News, Law Commission, News, RTM Tagged With: CFIF Nominee Limited, Clive Rayden, Dennis Jackson, Janice Northover, Justin Bates, Law Commission, Paul Rayden, Phillip Golding, Wharfside Point South RTM Co Limited

Right to Manage added to the ever growing list of leasehold reforms

July 4, 2018 By Admin2

LKP is very pleased that today sees the launch of the Law Commision review of the now broken right to manage legislation. The full press release from the Law Commision is set out below: Law reform needed to help leaseholders take control of their buildings Housing Secretary James Brokenshire has asked the Law Commission to […]

Filed Under: DCLG, Latest News, News, RTM Tagged With: James Brokenshire MP, Justin Bates, Law Commission, Sir Peter Bottomley

Israel Moskovitz loses epic Elim Court right to manage battle in landmark Court of Appeal decision

February 24, 2017 By admin

Elim Court, a retirement site in Plymouth, learned today that it had won its epic battle for right to manage in the Court of Appeal against its landlord Israel Moskovitz. His Avon Freeholds Limited managed the site through Y and Y Management, run by business associate Joseph Gurvits. Y and Y is a management company […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, RTM Tagged With: Court of Appeal, Dudley Joiner, Elim Court, Israel Moskovitz, James Driscoll, Joseph Gurvits, Justin Bates, Lord Justice Lewison, right to manage, Right To Manage Federation, Y and Y Management

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

February 3, 2017 By admin

Leasehold sector insiders were aghast at the address given by Sir Peter Bottomley on Wednesday at the Leasehold Advisory Service “annual conference”. The event was packed with surveyors, valuers, lawyers and property managing agents paying £350 a head to attend what has until now been the most important trade show of the sector. Earlier housing […]

Filed Under: FPRA, Justin Bates, Latest News, LEASE, Martin Paine, News, Oakland Court, Parliament, Slider2, Tchenguiz Tagged With: Anthony Essien, Bellway, Benjamin Mire, Bob Bessell, Charter Quay, Gavin Barwell, James Wyatt, Justin Bates, LEASE, Leasehold Advisory Service, Martin Paine, Mundy, Parthenia, Roger Southam, Shula Rich, Sir Peter Bottomley, Ted Ayres, Vincent Tchenguiz

The day the Leasehold Advisory Service was returned to leaseholders

February 2, 2017 By admin

– Sector insiders paying £350 each at LEASE’s ‘annual conference’ are told by housing minister Gavin Barwell that leaseholders are the priority – It will be given the funds to do its job properly without pandering to the commercial interests in leasehold – Onerous ground rents wrong, says minister. But chartered surveyor valuers tell audience how to […]

Filed Under: Latest News, LEASE, News, Taylor Wimpey Tagged With: Justin Bates, Martin Boyd, Martin Paine, Roger Southam, Sir Peter Bottomley

ARMA conference ‘worried’ that developers are exploiting new home owners

November 11, 2016 By admin

The annual conference of ARMA held yesterday in central London was the most rigorous and clear-eyed discussion of leasehold and its many defects yet held by a trade body in the sector. At one point in the proceedings, the audience of 550 managing agents, lawyers, senior civil servants and … two trustees of the Leasehold […]

Filed Under: ARMA, ARMA-Q, Ground rent scandal, Latest News, News, Philip Rainey QC, Taylor Wimpey Tagged With: Anna Bailey, Braemar Estates, Elim Court, Jim Fitzpatrick, Justin Bates, Nigel Glen, Philip Rainey QC, Robert Dean, Sally Keeble

John Christodoulou minions get the boot at Canary Riverside

October 1, 2016 By admin

– Controversial freeholder loses Docklands jewel – Court-appointed managing agent takes over today – Damning criticisms of ‘failures to manage the properties’ – Revenue streams lost (… Now what about West India Quay which has the same set-up?) Monaco-based freehold owner John Christodoulou failed in the Upper Tribunal yesterday (September 30) to stop a court-appointed […]

Filed Under: Canary Riverside, John Christodoulou, Latest News, News, West India Quay Tagged With: Alan Coates, Amanda Gourlay, Canary Riverside, HML Andertons, Jim Fitzpatrick, John Christodoulou, Justin Bates, Marathon Estates, Martin Rodgers QC, Nick Brocklesby, Richard Paul, West India Quay, Yianis Group

Right to manage in chaos after Court of Appeal decision

March 30, 2015 By admin

UPDATED with analysis of the decision below Right to manage legislation is in chaos following Friday’s Court of Appeal decision to prevent RTM companies from managing more than one building at a site. The decision drives a hole through current RTM legislation and, in LKP’s view, can only be addressed with primary legislation. It means […]

Filed Under: Latest News, News, RTM Tagged With: Freehold Managers (Nominees) Limited, Garner Court RTM Co Limited, Holybrook RTM Co Limited, Israel Moskovitz, Justin Bates, Ninety Broomfield Road RTM Co Limited, Phillip Rainey QC, Proxima GR Properties Limited, Siobhan McCrath, Triplerose, Vincent Tchenguiz

No.1 Deansgate wins epic RTM battle, as freeholder throws in the towel at the Court of Appeal

February 24, 2015 By admin

The freeholder of Manchester’s prime No.1 Deansgate blinked first and dropped a Court of Appeal action to block a right to manage application. Residents at No.1 Deansgate, who include footballers Ryan Giggs and Phil Neville, Corrie star Helen Worth and Take That singer Jason Orange – have already spent £30,000 on the RTM marathon.

Filed Under: Latest News, News, RTM Tagged With: Arden Chambers, Block Property Management, CBRE Global Investors, Justin Bates, Mark Habib, No.1 Deansgate, Phillip Rainey QC, Steve Birkbeck, TRW Pensions

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By Sebastian OKelly, LKP trustee The controversial issues of ground rents and exit fees in retirement housing were discussed at this week’s meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform. These were the main event in a meeting which also had an insider’s examination of leasehold insurance commissions, and why developers […]

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Guardian sticks with new-build ground rent scandal, while LKP advises Persimmon home buyers to walk away

By Sebastian O’Kelly (This article is bylined in order to declare an interest as the author is a shareholder in Persimmon and Barratt) If Taylor Wimpey, Persimmon, Bellway and other developers playing the angles of leasehold thought the row over cheating ground rents would go away, they must be disabused by now. Today The Guardian […]

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  Around 50 leasehold stakeholders and seven parliamentarians attended the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform on Wednesday evening. The parliamentary turnout was lower than expected, owing to the election. Sebastian O’Kelly, trustee of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, was the first speaker, welcoming owners of leasehold houses from the North West making their second […]

Leasehold houses and the sales process were ‘absolutely disgusting’, MPs told. But have laws been broken?

Charities and housing associations are ‘ripped off’ as bogus sales prices are recorded on Land Registry, it is claimed Many leasehold house buyers are in negative equity owing to over-valuations Developers’ ‘morally debatable’ conduct over leasehold house sales, with ‘huge benefits’ to use recommended solicitors If developer recommended solicitors complete within 28 days, there is […]

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Blenheim Centre flat owners to be spared £20,000-30,000 each on Grenfell cladding bill, Legal & General tells LKP

Legal & General has announced that it will pick up the entire, multi-million pound cost of removing the Grenfell-style cladding at flats above the Blenheim Centre in Hounslow, west London, it has informed LKP. This means that the 334 residential leaseholders at the flats, called Reflexions, will be spared repair bills estimated between £20,000 and […]

Cladding crisis: How worse can it get?

By Harry Scoffin As the flats market grinds to a halt because of a government directive on combustibles, the blaze that engulfed a student block in Bolton on Friday – risking the lives of 300 students and firefighters – has brought building safety regulations and the government’s approach to the cladding crisis under fierce new […]

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West India Quay’s victory against £74,560 legal onslaught … for a recognised residents’ association

  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 […]

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Martin Paine, embedded management companies, LKP … all raised in Queen’s speech debate

These issues were raised by Sir Peter Bottomley in the Queen’s Speech debate yesterday Let me turn to other issues that come up for Back Benchers. I pick up causes, one of which came about as a result of an incident in my constituency regarding leasehold, when some elderly, frail and poor people found themselves […]

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