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West Midlands Police Brutality – Chief Constable pays £15,000 Damages to Ryan Clayton following a Brutal Attack by Inspector Andrew Tanner 7643
A West Midlands man has successfully sued the Chief Constable of West Midlands Police for damages for assault, wrongful arrest and unlawful detention for an assault when he was aged just 17. Ryan Clayton of Shenley Fields Birmingham settled his claim on 8 July 2020 for £15,000 plus legal costs. On 8 May 2014 whilst […]
BUSINESS LEASE RENEWAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF THE COVID-19 LOCKDOWN
In the context of a business lease renewal there are quite a number of new factors which both landlords and tenants of commercial property need to consider in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 lockdown. That is particularly so in circumstances where the tenant’s business is in leisure, hospitality, retail, or some other business which […]
Government pledges to “build, build, build” and announces “Project Speed
The government’s pledge to “build, buld build” and its announcement of “Project Speed” surely represents a great opportunity for schools and academies who have struggled for years, if not decades, with school buildings and facilities seriously in need of refurbishment, to grasp this opportunity and get their school refurbished. Local authorities, Church of England and […]
Lucy Scott-Moncrieff writes about the challenges and opportunities of becoming a virtual firm for the Law Society Gazette
Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, founder and managing director of Scott-Moncrieff and Associates, writes for the Law Society Gazette on the challenges and opportunitiesof becoming a virtual law firm: “Since lockdown, most law firms have had to adopt a remote working model. All firms have faced challenges in that process, but most seem to have quickly overcome them […]
Scott-Moncrieff Consultant Terence Channer featured in The Guardian
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What are the ‘common parts’ of a block of flats, or a property converted into flats in the context of a collective enfranchisement claim?
In acting for a landed estate seeking to resist, or at the very least keep the consequences to the minimum of flat tenants exercising their rights to collectively enfranchise the freehold to the block of flats, or mansion house within which their flats were situated, care was taken to identify what constituted the ‘Specified Premises’ […]
Landlord reasonably withhold consent to a planning application on the grounds of increased enfranchisement risk
Overturning previous judgements of both the High Court and the Court of Appeal the Supreme Court has ruled that a landlord could use a qualified tenant covenant controlling the making of planning applications and use this alone to reasonably refuse consent to the making of a planning application the grant of planning permission to […]
Managing Director, Lucy Scott-Moncrieff wins Lifetime Achievement Award at Law Society Awards
Our Managing Director, Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by The Law Society at last night’s Excellence Awards ceremony. The event was held in Central London on Wednesday 23 October and attracted more than 1,000 guests. View full details of the event here.
THE SUPREME COURT RULES
R (on the application of Miller) v The Prime Minister, Cherry and others v Advocate General for Scotland Boris Johnson took quite a gamble when he decided in quite exceptional circumstances to advise the Queen to prorogue Parliament for five out of a possible eight weeks in the run-up to the UK leaving the […]
Police who shot unarmed man followed procedure, watchdog finds
Terence Channer of Scott-Moncrieff & Associates, is lawyer to Sharif Cousins, an unarmed man shot by police in Birmingham in 2017. Read more about the story here.