Section 20

Bungling operations manager and directors at retirement site Dibleys Heritage signed £66,000 a year energy deal incorrectly – and have cost leaseholders £40,000 in legal fees

South Cliff Tower and Southdown Surveyors regarded £3m repairs consultation as ‘something to be endured’ rather than ‘influence decision making’

Florrie’s Law fails again as Haringey council dumps £100,000 bills on leaseholders in the midst of the Covid-19 disaster

Housing associations furious at government’s 10-year repair-free offer to new shared owners

Is ‘Chapman’ the new ‘Daejan’?

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

An open letter to Robert Jenrick: the costs of delayed leasehold reform

Academic bars Oxford City Council from entering his flat to finish major works

Section 20B: Joseph and Esther Gurvits too late to get £3,387 service charges after an RTM

John Christodoulou side-steps £4m ‘dou-dou’ at Beetham Tower, where leaseholders face bills of £40,000 each as the works begin

Right-to-buy owners are also being ripped off by the leasehold system, The Guardian reports

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 …

Oxford Council leaseholders have repair bills slashed from £50,000 to under £4,000

Oxford leaseholders win first round against £60,000 major works bills

Southwark council leaseholders see major works bill slashed from £17,000 to £8,000

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

Daejan v Benson: ‘on the whole good for landlords’

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

Epic leasehold battle ends with victory of freeholder in the Supreme Court