Monthly Archives: December 2019

Leasehold Properties – How changes could affect English markets

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Alice Heathfield

On 27 June 2019, the government announced its proposals to legislate in relation to onerous ground rents and to prohibit the sale of long leaseholds of residential houses, amongst other unfair leasehold industry practices. This has been on the agenda …

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Singularis: the Supreme Court upholds the Quincecare duty

Posted on December 6, 2019 by Alice Heathfield

In a case “bristling with simplicity”, the Supreme Court in Singularis Holdings Ltd v Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd[1]  confirmed that financial institutions remain under a duty (the “Quincecare duty”) not to execute a customer’s payment instructions where they are …

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Commercial leases – a world apart from assured shorthold tenancies

Posted on December 4, 2019 by Alice Heathfield

Residential property investors are increasingly adding commercial properties to their portfolios.  But commercial leases are a very different beast to the assured shorthold tenancies (AST) most residential property investors will be familiar with. Jonathan Wood a property lawyer at Collyer …

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Privacy and real-time bidding: An updated guide for adtech vendors and publishers

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Alice Heathfield

Until the summer of 2019, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s privacy regulator, had not been particularly pro-active in enforcing the law on data protection in respect of the use of cookies and programmatic advertising based on real-time bidding …

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