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Court of Appeal confirms scope of data controllers’ security obligations
Christopher Perrin
15 October 2013
A history lesson for property owners: will the chancel repair liability changes affect you?
Chancel repair is a long-standing liability on property owners to contribute to the repair cost of the chancel (the space around the alter usually at the eastern end) of a parish church. On Sunday 13 October 2013, chancel repair liability ceased to automatically bind purchasers of affected land as an ‘overriding interest’ under the Land Registration Act 2002. Vanessa Whatley assesses the impact of these changes on property owners.
9 October 2013
How will the Help to Buy scheme impact on the property market?
Julia Hicks assesses how the property market will be impacted following the introduction of second phase of the Government's Help to Buy scheme.
9 October 2013
Tackling illegal immigration in privately rented accommodation - issues for landlords
Bethan Owen discusses the recent Home Office consultation and how this could impact on landlords.
3 August 2012
Squatting becomes a criminal offence (again) – an update
The statutory instrument formally enacting section 144 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 has now been made. From 1 September 2012 it will be a criminal offence to squat in a residential building. Anyone living in a residential building at that date, even if they entered before 1 September 2012, will be committing a criminal offence if they originally went in without permission. Overnight, therefore, a new category of criminals will be created.
4 July 2012
Mobile phone masts - have your say
Many of us use mobile telecommunications devices on a regular basis. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, few of us think about the laws that enable us to ring our family and friends and to conduct business from some of the remotest of locations. In fact, making that important Mother’s Day call may depend on an electronic communications operator installing telecommunications equipment on somebody’s land without their consent.