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Cases later courts cite most
Cases Scott Cohen Solicitors acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 23 Feb 2017 |
[2017] EWCA Civ 89 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A statutory right-to-manage claim concerns a private right similar to a property right. Substantial compliance is therefore insufficient, but every procedural…
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13 |
| 27 Mar 2015 |
[2015] EWCA Civ 282 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, each exercise of the right to manage must relate to one set of premises. Those…
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9 |
| 13 Dec 2024 |
[2024] EWCA Civ 1544 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A “landlord under a lease” for the right-to-manage provisions of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 is the holder of the legal estate. A purchaser of…
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5 |
| 4 Mar 2024 |
[2024] EWCA Civ 187 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The right to manage under Part 2 Chapter 1 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 may be claimed for premises satisfying section 72 even where those…
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3 |
| 30 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 1016 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, an equitable lessee can be a qualifying tenant where no legal lease exists and the…
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3 |
| 29 Oct 2019 |
[2019] EWCA Civ 1827 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Section 19(2) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 limits an advance service charge to a reasonable amount. Reasonableness is fact-sensitive and is not governed…
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3 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 30 Jul 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 1016 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, an equitable lessee can be a qualifying tenant where no legal lease exists and the…
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3 |
| 13 Dec 2024 |
[2024] EWCA Civ 1544 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A “landlord under a lease” for the right-to-manage provisions of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 is the holder of the legal estate. A purchaser of…
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5 |
| 5 Dec 2024 |
[2024] UKUT 400 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
Where leaseholders raise a prima facie case that service-charge expenditure was not reasonably incurred, or that an estimated charge is unreasonable, the…
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| 20 Nov 2024 |
[2024] UKUT 371 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
A covenant that a tenant will comply with legal obligations is not implied into every lease by the landlord-and-tenant relationship. A term implied into a…
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| 28 Oct 2024 |
[2024] UKUT 335 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
A lessee under an equitable long lease is a qualifying tenant for the right to manage where no legal lease of the flat exists. Where legal and equitable long…
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1 |
| 4 Mar 2024 |
[2024] EWCA Civ 187 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
The right to manage under Part 2 Chapter 1 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 may be claimed for premises satisfying section 72 even where those…
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3 |
| 30 May 2023 |
[2023] EWCA Civ 616 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, the statutory definitions of a “long lease” operate as alternative gateways. A shared ownership lease…
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| 4 Apr 2023 |
[2023] UKUT 88 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
Orders under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 and paragraph 5A of Schedule 11 to the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 are discretionary…
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| 21 Mar 2023 |
[2023] UKUT 71 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
A lease that provides for balancing charges based on expenditure already incurred does not authorise demands for estimated future service charges unless it…
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1 |
| 2 Feb 2023 |
[2023] UKUT 26 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
For the right to manage, a self-contained part of a building under section 72 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 need not be the smallest possible…
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| 1 Feb 2023 |
[2023] UKUT 31 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
Orders under Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, section 20C, and Schedule 11 to the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 may properly be made against a…
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| 7 Nov 2022 |
[2022] UKUT 285 (LC) · Upper Tribunal: Lands Chamber
A leaseholder must identify why a variable service charge is unreasonable before the tribunal may reject it as unsubstantiated. Consultation under section 20…
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1 |
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