Liam Spender

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

In Pennycook government has a good housing minister: let him finish the job by finishing off leasehold

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?

Speak out in this government consultation by 26 September – because freeholders and their army of helpers will certainly do so

Land Registry blunder means Cresta Court RTM fails at Court of Appeal as notification was not served on one leaseholder – who actually supported right to manage

As government seeks balance in leasehold litigation costs, Liam Spender asks Court of Appeal to cap freeholder’s lawfare fees over ‘contract for eternity’ dispute

Leaseholders escape £55,000 legal bill dumped on the service charge by Triplark – as reforms seek to balance arms in leasehold litigation

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

LKP’s guide for leaseholders to respond to government’s proposed permitted insurance fees: the good and not so good

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

Freeholders face class action over insurance commissions

Leasehold reform: So, was it worth it?

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

FirstPort blows a fuse: Why are energy subsidies absent from the £265,784 electricity bills – an increase of 154% – at St David’s Square, tribunal is asked

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

Michael Gove’s admission today that regulation failures in part caused Grenfell clears path to final resolution of the building safety crisis

Greenhalgh’s farewell to APPG: ‘I have a commonhold flat and there is nothing to fear its widespread adoption to replace leasehold’

MPs join leaseholders at protest to ensure no one is left facing building safety cash calls

Retirement housebuilder Platinum Skies breached shared ownership rules with onerous ‘staircasing’ charges in the lease

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

Will government dump Dame Judith Hackitt’s £60,000 a year building safety managers job creation scheme?

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 faces leasehold rebellion over service charges at St David’s Square

BBC2 Newsnight special on corrosive leasehold and the building safety crisis … with no minister present at all