Insights
10th November 2025
The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 – The Rundown
The long anticipated Renters’ Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 27 October 2025 and is now available to view online. A commencement date has not been yet…
Insights
17th October 2025
Sidhu v Cassell – Can a Defective Gas Safety Certificate Be Cured?
The case of Sidhu v Cassell was recently heard at the County Court on appeal. The case of Sidhu addressed a situation where the initial pre-tenancy Gas Safety…
Insights
14th October 2025
Changing Deposit Schemes – Are You Compliant?
Ameera Macintyre v Cowdray Trust Limited and Rathbones Trust Company Limited (2025) EWCC 54 The Law When a landlord takes a security deposit, they must observe the requirements…
Insights
24th September 2025
Licence to Bill: Dupau and Maschka -v- Krogdahl and Krogdahl
The case of Jupet, Dupau & Maschka V Jonathan Krogdahl & Nicky Krogdahl was recently heard in the First-tier Tribunal and was in regard to a rent repayment…
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20th August 2025
Lowe v Governors of Sutton’s Hospital in Charterhouse: An update on deposit legislation
The case of Lowe v Governors of Sutton’s Hospital in Charterhouse was recently heard in the Court of Appeal. It was concerned with some of the formalities that…
Insights
15th August 2025
HMO Insight – Is Your ‘Let Only’ Really a Let Only?
Landlords who let properties that qualify as a House of Multiple Occupancy (HMO) may require a licence to do so lawfully – subject to the requirements of the…
Insights
7th August 2025
How not to serve the How to Rent guide
We write with some further information on the importance of serving the correct version of the How to Rent Guide to residential tenants, and serving it correctly. This…
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24th February 2025
Court of Appeal clarifies the rules surrounding service of ‘notices’
A judgment was recently passed down in D'Aubigny v Khan and Anor in the Court of Appeal, which concerned whether service by post of a gas safety certificate,…
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3rd January 2025
Switaj v McClenaghan [2024] EWCA Civ 1457 – Prohibited Payments Before and After 1 June 2019
The Tenant Fees Act 2019 (TFA) banned most letting fees and imposed a cap of tenancy deposits paid by tenants. The ban applies to new or renewed tenancy…
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17th December 2024
Renters Rights Bill: Existing notices and possession proceedings under section 21 and section 8 of the Housing Act 1988
We have previously provided updates as to the contents and progress of the Renters Rights Bill (“the Bill”). As the Bill is still in draft form, this is…