Law firm

JB Leitch Limited

JB Leitch Limited is named as solicitors in at least 14 UK judgments from 2020 to 2026, most often in real estate and housing.

14
judgments
12
in the last five years
3
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Real estate13
  • Housing9
  • Commercial disputes2

Courts

  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)3
  • High Court2
  • Upper Tribunal9

Counsel most often instructed

  • Tom Morris6
  • Simon Allison4

Judgments by year

  • 20261
  • 20254
  • 20242
  • 20235
  • 20220
  • 20211
  • 20201

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
29 Jun 2026
[2026] UKUT 244 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
For an application under section 27A of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, whether premises are dwellings is assessed for the period to which the service-charge…
5 Dec 2025
[2025] EWCA Civ 1578 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under section 19(1)(a) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, the question is whether it was reasonable, in all the circumstances existing when the landlord…
1
17 Oct 2025
[2025] EWCA Civ 1319 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A costs-capping order on an appeal is discretionary, even where costs recovery was limited or excluded at first instance. The court must consider all the…
16 Oct 2025
[2025] EWCA Civ 1308 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Where a lease gives a landlord a discretion to designate expenditure as a service charge item and requires the landlord to act reasonably, the tribunal is not…
7 Feb 2025
[2025] UKUT 39 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
For a right-to-manage claim, whether premises are a self-contained part of a building under Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, section 72 is a purely…
26 Jun 2024
[2024] UKUT 175 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
For the purposes of section 19(1)(a) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, a leaseholder may raise a prima facie case concerning an insurance commission through…
15 May 2024
[2024] UKUT 120 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
An express lease term requiring a landlord to act “reasonably” when exercising a service-charge discretion ordinarily requires objective reasonableness, not…
13 Nov 2023
[2023] UKUT 271 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
A tribunal considering dispensation from statutory consultation requirements may impose a costs condition only where the condition is appropriate in its nature…
1
7 Sep 2023
[2023] UKUT 219 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
An order under section 20C is not a routine consequence of leaseholders achieving some success in service-charge proceedings. The tribunal must decide what is…
22 Aug 2023
[2023] UKUT 209 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
The reasonableness of a service-charge cost is a fact-sensitive question. It is not governed by an inflexible rule that the cause of the expenditure is…
1
22 Aug 2023
[2023] UKUT 207 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
A service charge for insurance remains subject to the statutory reasonableness provisions where a tenant-controlled management company procures the insurance…
27 Jul 2023
[2023] UKUT 174 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
On an application to dispense with consultation for qualifying works, the decisive question is whether leaseholders suffer relevant prejudice: prejudice caused…

Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which JB Leitch Limited is named as solicitors, counted under the firm's current name. The figures are minimums: not every judgment names the solicitors, and a judgment is counted only when we are confident who acted. The selection of cases listed here is limited, and does not include family, criminal or anonymised cases. Firm details include data from the Solicitors Regulation Authority. zoomLaw is independent and not connected with JB Leitch Limited. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.