Philip Rainey QC

John Christodoulou fails to dump £355,000 gym debt onto the Canary Riverside leaseholders. Insurance commissions to be disclosed. And judge criticises his ‘extremely unattractive’ approach to tribunal

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

Southwark litigant-in-person leaseholder faces wipe-out after £24,000 tribunal victory. Council now deploys ‘shock and awe’ QC …

APPG tells MPs: Ban ground rents. Introduce commonhold. Summons housebuilders to select committee. End rip-off ‘fleasehold’ permission fees on managed estates

Taylor Wimpey abandons the leasehold houses racket from January 1

Philip Rainey QC: Are we creating homes or an investment asset class?

Philip Rainey QC: Reform of the law is a duty (and for landlord and tenant law it is overdue)

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

If you want to reform leasehold, this is how you could do it

LEASE: we need to make a million pounds a year by 2020

Right to manage in chaos after Court of Appeal decision

Government to ‘take forward’ CMA leasehold report, but rejects making right to manage easier

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

Packed Westminster meeting for leasehold reform

LKP holds Westminster meeting on commonhold

LEASE 2013: Pitiful contrast between professional and leaseholder sessions

Supreme Court ruling on Daejan v Benson gives freeholders the whip-hand and is ‘a judgment that tenants might consider disappointing’

LKP comment on LEASE annual conference 2012: a trade show for ‘leasehold professionals’ courtesy of taxpayers