31 January 2014 / Martin Dray

Issue: 7592 / Categories: Features , Property

The lay of the land

What does the year have in store for property law asks Martin Dray

“There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns—there are things we do not know we don't know.”

So said Donald Rumsfeld about weapons of mass destruction in 2002. Property law may be less controversial but for the large part it is no easier to predict. What will make the headlines in 2014? Here are some clues.

Known knowns

Here one is on the surest footing.

One 6 April will see the abolition of distress for rent. Effectively confined to commercial property for years now, a remedy favoured by landlords as a cheap and effective means of recovering rent arrears will be swept away when Pt 3 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007—a long time in the gestation— is brought into force along with the Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/1894). Its replacement is the snappily-entitled “commercial rent

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The lay of the land

Issue: 7592 / Categories: Features , Property

What does the year have in store for property law asks Martin Dray

Known knowns

Here one is on the surest footing.

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The lay of the land

Known knowns

Known knowns

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly

Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees

Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron