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The top 10 underused rules for property litigators

At the Property Litigation Association’s recent annual conference, Jonathan Seitler QC opened up his bag of tricks and shared with a delighted audience his favourite little-used - but hugely useful – provisions, rules and authorities that can be relied on to good effect at trial.

 

Counting down to his number one, these are Seitler’s top ten tips for litigators:

 10. JF Perrott & Co Ltd v Cohen [1950] 156 EG 422

9. Beoco Ltd v Alfa Laval Co Ltd [1995] QB 137

 8. CPR Rules 32 and 33

 7. Ford and another v White & Co [1964] 190 EG 595

 6. Hughes v Metropolitan Rly Co (1877) 2 App Cas 439

 5. The Unfair Terms In Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999

 4. Meacher v Trelford and others (unreported, 1988) and Coral Reef Ltd v Silverbond Enterprises Ltd and another [2016] EWHC 874 (Ch)

 3. Snook v London & West Riding Investments Ltd [1967] 1 All ER 518

 2. Gestmin SGPS S.A. v Credit Suisse (UK) Limited and another [2013] EWHC 3560 (Comm)

 1. Wisniewski v Central Manchester Health Authority [1998] EWCA Civ 596

Sirius on entering the London main market as a German property investor

Andrew Coombs, chief executive of Sirius Real Estate, on being a London-listed investor in German industrial. What are the opportunities and what does Brexit mean for them?

London’s West End top in Europe for retail spend

Jonathan De Mello, head of retail consultancy at Harper Dennis Hobbs speaks to EG on retail spend in the West End and how London has managed to maintain its position as one of the op retail destinations in Europe.

Jacob Loftus' One Poultry plans signal City's creative shift

General Projects chief executive Jacob Loftus explains his plans for the transformation of One Poultry, EC2. 

Global retailers head for Russia

Eight international brands, including Armani Exchange, Hunkemoller, Lindt, Superdry and NYX, have agreed deals to enter the Russian retail market.

Knight Frank's global tour of luxury rents

Prime residential rents in London fell 5.1% in 2016 - Taimur Khan, senior research analyst at Knight Frank, takes a tour of the world's prime residential markets following the Q4 Knight Frank Prime Global Rental Index

Who is Eddie Holmes? And why does he think M&A is on the horizon for PropTech?

The founder of the UK Proptech Association Eddie Holmes talks all things Proptech on the last day of this year's MIPIM where the sector was high on the agenda.

An entrepreneur and former investment director into proptech businesses said that there will "inevitably" be attrition in the Proptech sector as it grows.

He said: "A lot of this attrition will be through acquisitions and mergers."

Holmes added that he set up the UKPTA to "give proptech businesses and property businesses a forum to communicate with each other in an environment that's not about sales...as well as to encourage the growth of the sector as part of the British entrepreneurial society."

CEO Andrew Jones explains the lure of last mile distribution

How to rise £1bn to buy shared ownership

Heylo Housing chief executive Nick McAlpine-Lee talks to EG about the group's new housing association status, and how it intends to invest £1bn in shared ownership.