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06 Mar 2013
Legal protections which allow those of limited financial means to bring legal challenges on environmental grounds in the Scottish courts are to be formalised in legislation.
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25 Feb 2013
The Vietnamese Government has a "golden opportunity" to reform its construction laws as part of reforms being pushed through by the country's Ministry of Construction, an expert has said.
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22 Feb 2013
Retailers have called on the Government to freeze planned business rate increases for April as part of a package of measures to "reduce business costs and re-build consumer confidence".
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19 Feb 2013
It should no longer be possible for property owners to automatically be granted the right to enjoy natural daylight at their property simply because they have done so for a number of years without interruption, the Law Commission has said.
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15 Feb 2013
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) was within it rights to close down two unauthorised extended warranty schemes, regardless of whether the cover involved the payment of money to customers, the Supreme Court has confirmed.
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14 Feb 2013
An engineer can be held liable for a drop in the value of a property during a period of delay caused by him, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
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12 Feb 2013
Property owners were entitled to apply to the court for a declaration protecting their right to natural daylight at the property, even where there was no immediate risk of that right being infringed.
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08 Feb 2013
A group of landlords claiming millions of pounds in rent that went unpaid after retailer Game went into administration last March have begun proceedings in the Companies Court, according to press reports.
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08 Feb 2013
The main lender providing finance for the Government's Green Deal energy efficiency scheme will extend its services to small businesses, it has said.
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06 Feb 2013
Positive obligations in options for lease granted by a landowner to a third party before a piece of land is sold on cannot be enforced unless the buyer enters into similar obligations at the time of purchase, a court has said.
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