Case Report: Lafferty v Newark and Sherwood DC [2016] EWHC 320 (QB)

12 King’s Bench Walk (Chambers of Paul Russell QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | May 2016 #145
Landlords’ liability; injuries arising out of latent defects ‘Section 4(4) did not create a form of strict liability. It extended the application of s4(1) to relevant defects which were otherwise outside its scope, and remained subject to the requirement of s4(2).’ This important case resolves (for the time being at least) the question of whether …

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Comment: Less abstraction and more clarity

University of Greenwich | Property Law Journal | September 2015 #334
Mark Pawlowski questions the usefulness of legal fictions in leasehold law ‘What is clear is that the conduct of the reasonable man is not established by the evidence of witnesses, but by the application of an impersonal legal standard by the court.’ A recurring concern among legal practitioners is the fear of uncertainty in our …

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