There are four cases in this month’s update, provided by Katie Gray and Diane Doliveux:
Whether a tenant had been under duress and had not ‘agreed’ to pay an administration charge.
Conditions precedent, abuse of process, estoppel and waiver.
Costs incurred by a headlessee in providing energy to flats held on individual underleases were recoverable in circumstances where the systems for metering energy use had malfunctioned.
The failure to include the cost of the major works did not invalidate a demand for an estimated service charge.
Nora Wannagat examines the Court of Appeal's decision in National Iranian Oil
