Tag: Blacks Solicitor
BLACKS SOLICITORS: Fighting the System – Service Charge Disputes
Paying service charges will be familiar to most people holding flats or houses under a long lease. A leasehold owner owes various obligations to...
BLACKS SOLICITORS: Retention of Title
If you provide goods to a customer you should include a provision in your terms and conditions of sale that entitle you to retain...
BLACKS SOLICITORS: Asian Handshake Is Not Good Enough
The intention to create legal relations is an essential part of any contract. Without such intention the contract cannot be formed. This issue was...
No breach of human rights by private landlords
Under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his...
To terminate or not to terminate?
Commercial contracts commonly provide that if a party wishes to terminate the contract then it first needs to take certain steps before it is...
Fraud unravels all
When is the settlement of a claim between two parties not final? When there has been fraud involved. In what is being hailed as...
To surrender or not surrender
When is a commercial lease surrendered? The question may appear straightforward but as the tenant found out in the recent case of Padwick Properties...
Hands off!
In the past month, two longstanding high street brands, BHS and Austin Reed, have gone into administration. In addition to the 12,000 or so...
