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...
by Efosa Obaseki | Dec 3, 2025 | Property Law
The First-tier Tribunal (FTT) was asked whether an interference with a right of way, such as padlocked chains, breaks the continuous flow of the prescriptive period under the Prescription Act 1832.Facts:Mr. and Mrs. Irwin were joint registered proprietors of their...
