HMLR has updated PG19 (notices and restrictions). Section 2.6.2 has been updated to confirm that HMLR does not require additional documents to be uploaded with a UN1 application, and where documents uploaded are superfluous they will not be retained by HMLR. This is important because a UN1 application protects the confidentiality of the interest. Part …
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‘It is axiomatic that a judge must consider the totality of the evidence’ – and it should be seen to be done. The LA appealed a decision refusing to make a care order in respect of H, who was almost two and the youngest of M’s five children. M had been in a relationship with …
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HMLR has made a number of changes to PG50 (requisition and cancellation procedures). This is an important PG for practitioners as it gives advice on how to avoid requests for information (requisitions) on applications and HMLR procedures where they do need to be raised, including the way HMLR applies rule 16(2) of the Land Registration …
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M applied for child maintenance for the parties’ seven-year-old son. She also applied under s423 Insolvency Act 1968 for various transactions by F to be set aside. The parties are Czech nationals and met in 2015. The relationship ended in 2022 at which point F reduced his financial support from £2,500 to just £400 a …
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HMLR has updated section 8 of PG67 (evidence of identity) to reflect the addition of section C within form ID1 and ID2. Section C allows for a person’s ID to be verified digitally in line with the HM Land Registry digital identity standard. Section 8.6 has been amended to clarify that any evidence of the …
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On 25 June the government issued guidance on changes to planning appeals. The aim is to simplify and speed up the planning appeal process. In 2009, the ‘expedited’ part 1 written representations process was introduced. It is a simpler process than other processes for dealing with appeals and allows the Planning Inspectorate to reach quicker, …
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The SC has heard an important case which considers the Etridge principles that all property practitioners should read. The press summary is as follows: ‘Background to the Appeal In 2011 the appellant commenced a relationship at a point in her life when she was emotionally vulnerable but financially independent as the sole owner of her …
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The HC has heard a case that all those advising on commercial landlord and tenant matters should read. This was a landlord and tenant dispute relating to premises which form part of the Trocadero Centre (the Centre) in London. Very broadly, pursuant to the leases, the landlord was obliged to obtain insurance for the whole …
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Sixteen years after pleading guilty to theft and firearm offences, D appealed his conviction on the basis of fresh evidence. He sought permission to call two witnesses with that fresh evidence. The evidence concerned alleged police corruption during the trial and of entrapment which had been withheld by the prosecution. D said the fresh evidence …
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The RRB is of significance to lawyers in many areas of practice – not just those dealing with L&T work. Practitioners acting for buy-to-let investors or developers buying property subject to residential tenancies or lenders financing such properties will need to understand and be able to report on the RRB. As this is the biggest …
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