News & Insights

Expert insights, analysis and commentary on the main issues impacting the property management sector…

Our team have established a strong industry voice by regularly publishing a number of thought leadership articles, blogs, guidance notes and posts across key sector media titles and via our own communications channels. In this section of the website, you will be able to find a comprehensive range of published material, providing practical and useful insights on topics including building safety and legislative reform, to commentary and analysis of notable case law and updates from within the firm. Find articles by author, subject and category in the search fields opposite…

During our long relationship, JB Leitch has become part of our core team. Their Landlord and Tenant advice is authoritative and clear, and they understand our sector inside out. Their credit control service is highly effective, but also sensitive to the wider relationship we have with our leaseholders
Tim Wilson - Managing Director - E&J Estates
We have worked with JB Leitch for many years now. Their knowledge surrounding the legalities and technicalities of Service Charge collection is excellent and their approach is always helpful and professional.

During this particularly challenging time they continue to provide invaluable support by remaining easily contactable, sending regular reports and offering solutions to any problems that may arise.

Therina Crowley AMInstLM - Service Charge Arrears and Apprentice Supervisor - Encore
We have a strong and well-established working relationship with JB Leitch, having worked with them over a long period of time.

They have a good grasp on the nuances of residential property management so are well-placed to provide specialist advice and assistance on a wide range of issues affecting our industry.

They continue to provide invaluable support to our business, operating in many ways as a seamless extension to our in-house legal team.
Mairead McErlean - Legal Counsel - FirstPort
Over the last five years we have built a solid relationship with JB Leitch, they have provided us with a remarkable ground rent collection service for our freehold property portfolio on criteria and non-criteria debts. They provide a fast, effective recovery of our stand alone Ground Rent and also through their bolt-on Service Charge recovery by liaising with multiple managing agents on our behalf.
Bernadette Jones - General Manager - HomeGround Management Ltd
I would highly recommend JB Leitch although part of me would like to keep them a secret to ensure we have the advantage over competitors. They have increased my knowledge of the legal processes as well as the preparation required to avoid any issues from the beginning.
Dave Poppleton - Director - Inspired Property Management
JB Leitch are simply excellent. It is good to know that we are dealing with a market leading firm who provide superb quality up-to-date advice. When we give JB Leitch an instruction, whether a routine enfranchisement or a complex leasehold query they always deliver. They are highly responsive, professional and have a great team. A pleasure to do business with!
Jenny Jackson-Shilling - Director - The Freehold Group

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Service Charge: Assessing judgment and costs where a defendant’s defence and counterclaim are struck out (Gell v 32 St John’s Road (Eastbourne) Management Company Ltd – 2021)

CVAs & Landlords: A Limited Arrangement?

Security of Tenure in Business Tenancies: Whether commercial leases were within security of tenure provisions (TFS Stores Ltd v Designer Retail Outlet Centres (Mansfield) General Partner Ltd and other companies – 2021)

Property Development: Whether refusal of consent to a development on aesthetic grounds was reasonable (Hicks v 89 Holland Park Management Ltd – 2021)

Business Tenancies: Whether rents were payable by tenants during closure due to pandemic

Relief from Forfeiture: Court of Appeal considers judgment where a tenant was protected (Keshwala and another v Bhalsod and another – 2021)

Business Tenancies: Whether a tenant could rely on retail closure during pandemic in arrears proceedings (Commerz Real Investmentgesellschaft mbH v TFS Stores Ltd – 2021)

Service Charges: Appeal considers when a landlord may depart from statutory service charge consultation requirements (Aster Communities v Chapman and others – 2021)

A Smart Way of Doing Business

Business Tenancies: Assessing the need for effective pandemic rent suspension clauses (WH Smith Retail Holdings Ltd v Commerz Real Investmentgesellschaft mbH – 2021)

Company Voluntary Arrangements: The Challenges & Consequences for Landlords in a Changing Commercial Landscape

Break Notices: Whether a term could be implied into a break clause relating to notice timescales (Wigan Borough Council v Scullindale Global Ltd – 2021)

Service Charges: Obligation of landlord to give notice to tenant of sums to be demanded (H Stain Ltd v Richmond – 2021)

Insolvency Procedure: Whether an administrator had acted properly in connection with sale of development site (Re One Blackfriars Ltd; Hyde and another v Nygate and another – 2021)

Service Charges: Appeal to consider service charge payments made under a management order (Chuan-Hui and others v K Group Holdings Inc – 2019)

Breach of Covenant & Service Charge: Liability to pay service charges relating to future expenditure & remedying of breaches of covenant (Vishwaveer Ramjotton v Bhavin Prafulchandra Patel – 2021)

A Clear Responsibility?

Adverse Possession: Whether use of land as a right of way was sufficient to qualify as intention to possess (Amirtharaja v White – 2021)

Forfeiture: Whether a lease can be forfeited whilst an arbitration appeal is still outstanding (Chana v CC Properties (Yorkshire) Ltd – 2021)

Service Charge: Whether apportionment of service charges between tenants is solely a matter for a landlord (Criterion Buildings Ltd v Mckinsey and Company Inc. United Kingdom and another – 2021)

Validity of Dispensation Where Safety is Critical: Dispensation Granted Without Prejudice & Despite s.20 Consultation Error

With Urgency, Without Prejudice…

Flexible Tenancies: Termination of flexible secure tenancy by local authority (Croydon London Borough Council v Kalonga – 2021)

Service Charge: Whether mistakes in a service charge demand invalidate that demand entirely (Price v Mattey – 2021)

Service Charge: Whether service charges were payable where accounts were uncertified (Powell & Co Investments Ltd v Aleksandrova and another – 2021)

Breach of Covenant: Whether an acceptance of rent following a tenant’s breach of covenant will waive the landlord’s right to forfeit (Faiz v Burnley Borough Council – 2021)

Right to Manage: Whether an order appointing a manager under Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 can be varied (Benthan and another v Lindsay Court (St Annes) RTM Company Ltd and another – 2020)

Execution of documents: Interpretation of the natural and ordinary meaning of contractual terms (Northwood Solihull Ltd v Fearn and others – 2020)

Right to Manage: Valid service of notices of invitation and whether parties were qualifying tenants (Avon Ground Rents Ltd v Canary Gateway (Block A) RTM Company Ltd and another company – 2020)

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