Property tribunal

Tory Treasurer Lord Leigh and Priti Patel’s family accused of gaming the opportunities of leasehold

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

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

Property tribunal tightens up how it appoints section 24 court-appointed managers after the Richard Davidoff debacle

Vicky Pollard property tribunal: yes, but … no, but … Yes, you have been ripped off over insurance. But no, we can’t do anything about it

Property tribunal chamber president Siobhan McGrath says Richard Davidoff has two other section 24 court appointments – ‘as far as I can ascertain’ – and proposes a new practice code to encourage section 24 appointees to behave

Richard Davidoff fails to block right to manage – from a residents’ management company where he is the only director

Israel Moskovitz’s bid to monetise squalid car park back-fires and may cost him over £100,000 at tribunal

RICS dreams up another feeble ‘code of practice’, as Lord Best’s statutory regulator of property managers falls victim to Covid

Property tribunal judge chairs sector-driven code of practice review that is boycotted by leaseholders

Andover asphalt major works war sees landlord forced to pay for leaseholders’ expert

Coronavirus drags property tribunal into a new tech world with hearings via Skype

Jeremy Corbyn raises forfeiture case at prime minister’s questions

Let government know just what you think about property tribunal reform

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

‘The system is rigged against leaseholders’

Parliament told the Property Tribunal ‘stinks’: it lets down leaseholders again and again

It’s unfair, say Chelsea Harbour leaseholders lumbered with £300,000 legal costs after neighbours fail at tribunal

Phillips v Francis decision

Judge Siobhan McGrath apologises over Mire debacle

George Osborne’s former nanny faces £100,000 bills and loss of home

Judge Tim Powell explains First-Tier Tribunal … but leaseholders are not happy that justice is being done

Parliamentary Questions over Benjamin Mire case

All change for Leasehold Valuation Tribunals on July 1

Feuding Chelsea leasehold owners find a court-appointed managing agent makes all decisions

Informed leasehold owners increase Leasehold Valuation Tribunal actions by 165 per cent

Been ripped off over leasehold insurance? Take your complaint to the secret ombudsman, says Peverel

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

Dennis Jackson at Plantation Wharf: An £800,000 forfeiture over-turned by LKP

RICS rejects complaint against managing agent Benjamin Mire

Pensioners lose leasehold right to manage application for the third time

Furious LVT victor complains that managing agent also sits on the tribunal panel

Answer to a parliamentary question about Leasehold Valuation Tribunals … 189 irrelevant documents