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Code operator in occupation of land under a subsisting agreement that is a 1954 Act tenancy cannot serve a para 20 Code notice seeking code rights with respect to the land; renewal of the tenancy can only be dealt with by utilising the procedure under the

Only occupier can confer Code rights.

Falcon Chambers has been involved in the first case under the new Electronic Communications Code to reach the Court of Appeal, CTIL v Compton Beauchamp Estates Ltd [2019] EWCA 1755, CA, which had to consider the meaning of “occupier” and “relevant person”.

Premises are not a “flat” unless at some point in their existence someone could have lived in them

Judgment in Aldford House Freehold Ltd v Grosvenor (Mayfair) Estate and K Group was handed down by the Court of Appeal on 1 November 2019.

Great Dunmow Estates Ltd v Crest Nicholson Operations Ltd [2019] EWCA Civ 1683

The Court of Appeal set aside a declaration made by HHJ Kramer sitting as a deputy judge of the Chancery Division (HC-2017-001934) that an agreement varying a contractual valuation date contained in a statement of agreed facts had binding contractual effec

Regent Wealth v Wiggins [2019] UKUT 0310 (LC)

Judge Cooke in the Upper Tribunal handed down judgment in Regent Wealth v Wiggins [2019] UKUT 0310 (LC)