Winter Newsletter 2025

January 8, 2025

We hope that you had a great festive period and we wish you a Happy New Year. Tanfield has continued to go from strength to strength over the last quarter of 2024 and we have more good news to share with you.

Recent Events

On 26 November 2024, Tanfield held its annual Junior Property Law Conference, which entirely sold out the Inner Temple Lecture Theatre. The conference covered a range of topics which included; boundary disputes, renters rights, TOLATA, and insolvency. We were very pleased by the popularity of this event and we look forward to holding another successful event next year.

Recent News and Articles

On 6 November 2024, Christy Burzio was invited to speak on BBC Radio 4’s The Law Show for what was a very interesting discussion on the Renters’ Rights Bill with Dr Joelle Grogan. For those who missed it, please find the link here.

Tanfield’s Marc Glover and Hugh Rowan acted on behalf of the Emir of Al-Baha Province, in Mobile Telecommunications Company KSPC v HRH Prince Hussam bin Saud bin Abdulaziz al Saud in relation to a $1.2 billion bankruptcy petition.

Tanfield’s members have produced a number of articles in which you may be interested including:

Nicola Muir has published an article looking at what we can perhaps expect in terms of legislative changes in 2025 (article here)
Robert Bowker has published an article concerning the recent amendments to the Building Safety Act 2022 (article here) and
Edward Denehan has published an article discussing Millgate Developments Ltd v Alexander Devine Children’s Cancer Trust [2020] UKSC 45 and the nature of the Upper Tribunal’s jurisdiction and discretion to vary restrictive covenants affecting freehold land (article here).

Tanfield Talks Podcast

Tanfield has also launched its very own monthly podcast, Tanfield Talks which will keep you up to date on the latest news in the fields of business and property law accompanied by some witty dialogue and banter along the way.

You can find the link to the first episode, in which James Fieldsend and Annie Higgo discuss pupillage at Tanfield here.

Keep an eye out for our monthly episodes, where we will be covering the Building Safety Act 2022, private client matters, business premises, business tenancies, enfranchisement and much, much more.

Tanfield Talks is avaliable on all major podcast platforms.

Other News

Congratulations need to go to Richard Granby in light of his recent appointment as a Recorder with a crime ticket.

Finally, for those searching for pupillage, please note that Tanfield has joined the Pupillage Gateway and we are inviting applications for pupillages commencing in September 2025 and September 2026. Applicants can apply here.