Commercial Property & Business Law Blogs

  Midsummer’s Day – 24th June While last Friday was the Summer Solstice and celebrated by many, Monday 24 June is officially Midsummer’s Day. One thing I’ve always loved about living in England is the difference between the changing seasons.  I love to be outdoors and each season is my favourite while we’re in it, […]

    Fined almost £40,000 A homeowner has been fined almost £40,000 for illegally cutting back a mature oak to the rear of his luxury property. In one of the first claims of its kind, a court has ordered Samuel Wilson to pay £37,200 under the Proceeds of Crime Act, after he illegally chopped back […]

Following the expansion of the Timms property team, we recently hosted our first in-house ‘Property Pop-Up’ seminar. We were delighted to welcome Mat Day, Regional Director from Environet to our Derby office to deliver a highly entertaining and informative presentation. Japanese Knotweed remains a serious issue for property owners, buyers, sellers, developers and surveyors.  Mat’s […]

    Beneficial Ownership Register to go live in 2021 The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has announced plans to create an “overseas beneficial ownership register.” Foreign investors in the UK property market sometimes use corporate structures as a way of obscuring their identity.  The government has announced plans for a register which […]

    Lawyers often wish for a crystal ball: our jobs require us to try and foresee problems in business relationships which can run into many years.  If we’re drafting a lease, we’re trying to anticipate issues which might arise between the Landlord and the Tenant, without knowing the context in which that drafting might […]

It’s International Women’s Day, they said.  Write a blog about a woman who inspired your legal career, they said. I scratched my head. My route into law was roundabout.  I’d heard of Helena Kennedy QC and Baroness Hale, yes.  But they seemed to my younger self to be remote, elite members of the establishment. Not […]

I’ve yet to meet a lawyer with a crystal ball but a large part of our job is to try and mitigate the effects of reasonably foreseeable problems. It’s no big secret that for adults and businesses, Christmas can be stressful and frantic.  The last thing you want is for demanding legal obligations to pop […]

Dark mornings and evenings, stressed out families – no wonder people ask us if they can just move into the workplace instead of going home! Or maybe with the price of residential property topping out at £19,439 per m2 in Kensington & Chelsea (source: Office of National Statistics website 20.11.18) and the rise of ‘flexible […]

Points to consider when selling part of your garden land for development… With the ever-increasing pressure to build more houses throughout the UK, you might have considered selling your land, or at least part of it to a builder for development. It is worth seeking initial advice from a surveyor and agent to consider the […]

What should you do if you receive a Claim Form from the County Court? If you have received a claim form from the County Court, it is important that you do not ignore it! First of all, check that the Claim is against you. If it isn’t, then return all of the papers to the […]