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2025 in review: Under construction - Tax investigations
Krishna Mahajan
18 February 2019
A room with a view: Angry neighbours lose Tate Modern balcony case
A recent high court decision has rejected claims that a neighbouring viewing platform amounted to nuisance and an invasion of privacy.
6 February 2019
S.D.L.T. on SDLT (Solicitors Don’t Lose Time on Stamp Duty Land Tax)
From 1 March 2019 legislation being introduced by the Finance Bill 2018-19 means the deadline to file an SDLT return and pay SDLT will be cut from 30 days to 14 days after the effective date of the transaction.
23 January 2019
The Default Position: Negotiating Events of Default under a loan agreement - what should a borrower be wary of?
Events of Default are most often found in the context of loan agreements and are similar to termination rights that may be found in commercial agreements, albeit with potentially different consequences. An Event of Default is an event or circumstance relating to a borrower or its activities which will give rise to a right for a lender to refuse to make any further advances, demand immediate repayment of a loan, make a term loan repayable on demand and/or enforce its security.
21 December 2018
A ban on combustible cladding; a Joint Regulators Group; a new health and safety test for architects - The Hackitt Report six months on
In construction, “underpinning” is the process of strengthening the foundation of an existing structure in order to provide stability in cases where the original foundation is not strong enough. In respect of building safety, the Hackitt Report seeks to change the ethos of the industry by strengthening the existing foundations and introducing new ideas to build upon them.
29 November 2018
“Improving transparency and integrity of information”- The impact of the Golden Thread on Principal Designers and Principal Contractors
In my previous blog, I concluded my review of how the roles and responsibilities of the key CDM duty holders may be applied to Higher Risk Residential Buildings (“HRRBs”). In this blog, I will explore the Hackitt Report’s recommendation for the introduction of a ‘golden thread’ of quality building information and what that means for Principal Designers and Principal Contractors.