by Efosa Obaseki | Jan 19, 2026 | Property Law
The Court of Appeal (CoA) has delivered a landmark ruling, one which establishes that a landlord’s contractual obligation to a third party does not act as an automatic shield against the statutory requirement that service charges must be reasonably incurred.Facts:The...
by Efosa Obaseki | Jan 12, 2026 | Property Law
The High Court ruled that beneficial owners who enable a third party to misrepresent themselves as the sole owner to secure a mortgage are precluded from asserting an overriding interest against the lender.Facts:Mr. and Mrs. Ashrafi were the original beneficial owners...
by Efosa Obaseki | Jan 7, 2026 | Property Law
The Court of Appeal (CoA) has delivered a landmark ruling, clarifying that the general service charge provisions in social housing leases cannot be used to shift the enormous financial burden of rectifying fundamental, pre-existing structural flaws from public...
by Efosa Obaseki | Dec 30, 2025 | Property Law
The First-instance Tribunal (FiT) ruled on a specific Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) dispute, finding that the inclusion of a non-residential interest within a primarily residential property purchase qualified the entire acquisition for the lower, “mixed-use”...
by Efosa Obaseki | Dec 16, 2025 | Property Law
The High Court, in an insolvency case, was asked whether the administrators had an immediate and unencumbered right to possession of the properties.Facts:The administrators of Pocket Renting Ltd. (the company), which owns a portfolio of sixty-five residential...
by Efosa Obaseki | Dec 10, 2025 | Property Law
The Court of Appeal (CoA) clarified that a defaulting mortgagor cannot easily use Section 91 of the Law of Property Act (LPA) 1925 to wrest control of a property sale from court-appointed receivers, reinforcing that judicial intervention is warranted only in...
