Articles

January 2012

Richard is now the author of guidance notes and documents on Singapore arbitration for the Practical Law Company's arbitration service in the UK and US, and its 'Arbitration in Asia Toolkit'.
31 January 2012

“How to respond effectively to the Administration moratorium”

The Administration: administrators, aims, procedures and likely outcomes
17 November 2011

Interim Injunctions in property cases: American Cyanamid revisited

It is now 36 years since Lord Diplock laid down his guidelines as to the courts’ approach to the granting of interim injunctions (pending a trial on the merits) in the well known and leading case American Cyanamid [1975] AC 396. Despite its vintage, American Cyanamid is the case to which practitioners will need to turn in order to decide whether or not a court is likely to grant an interim injunction to restrain a potential defendant from the matters his client is complaining of. This article will look at the application of the American Cyanamid principles in property cases.
8 September 2011

Misrepresentation on Bond Issues: Liability in the Secondary Market

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, January 2011, 17-19
1 January 2011

Qualifying for Consultation

A consideration of qualifying long term agreements under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985.
23 August 2010

Postcode Lottery

Boundary disputes will continue to bemuse unless the bench sorts out its jigsaw-puzzle approach to precedent, writes Gary Blaker
13 July 2010

Trustees – how to sell a business and distribute the proceeds

Private Client Business 2010, Issue No. 3, 181-188
1 June 2010

Compulsory acquisition - a tool used with increasing frequency on this crowded island

Is there a general right to Judicial Review to challenge the decision to vest land the subject of a confirmed Compulsory Purchase Order? Jonathan Ferris discusses this in an article originally published in the Journal of Planning Law.
12 May 2010

Silent Witness

Claimants in conveyencing negligence cases should be permitted to use legal experts where the judge has little understanding or experience of property law - an article for the Solicitors' Journal, February 2010.
24 February 2010

“Virtual Assignments” and Covenants against Alienation

Nicholas Trompeter considers the Court of Appeal's decision Clarence House Ltd v Nat West Bank.
9 December 2009

An Englishman’s home is not his castle

A new look at boundary disputes by Duncan Kynoch.
22 November 2009

Investing in bricks and mortar together?

Mark Warwick was successful before the Court of Appeal in March 2009 in a case (Bindra v Chopra) involving the proper approach to the construction of a trust deed. The implications of this decision for those who purchase property jointly is considered in his article, that recently appeared in the New Law Journal.
27 May 2009