Connaught Law Blog

In URS Corporation Ltd v BDW Trading Ltd [2025] UKSC 21 the Supreme Court held that a developer which repairs defective buildings voluntarily does…

Section 50(9A) of the British Nationality Act 1981 decides who counts as a child’s father — and for decades it refused to see the…

British citizenship can be taken away — on two distinct legal grounds: deprivation “conducive to the public good” for the gravest conduct, and deprivation…

Who keeps the pet when a marriage ends? In law a dog or cat is property — a chattel, like the car — but…

Transgender parents in the UK keep their legal relationship with their children through every stage of transition — the law on that point is…

Any overseas company holding UK property is now inside a compliance cycle that never ends: register with Companies House, verify through a UK-regulated agent,…

For thirty-six years a long lease with ground rent above £250 a year — £1,000 in Greater London — could count as an assured…

A surrender ends a lease before its time by agreement — and only by agreement. Neither side can force it: the tenant cannot walk…

A grant of a new lease creates a leasehold estate that did not exist before — the landlord carves a term out of their…

Can you rent out your leasehold flat? Usually yes — but the permission does not come from owning it. It comes from the lease,…

A leaseholder of a house can compel the freeholder to sell — that is the Leasehold Reform Act 1967, and it still does the…

A commercial lease agreement is usually the largest contract a small business ever signs — and the least negotiated. The lease the landlord’s solicitor…