Having had a long break from blogging I thought I would do a quick review of some legal stories with a property twist that were reported in the past couple of weeks
Port company RMS Group, part of the industry campaign against backdated business rates, is poised to make a direct appeal to the Lands Tribunal to challenge its retrospective £5m business rates bill.
Mr Anthea Turner and buy-to-let entrepreneur Grant Bovey has been ordered to pay back substantial loan repayments to creditors of his failed Imagine Homes group.
Beard-lovers at the Campaign for Real Ale have called on the public to help fund an appeal against the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) rejection of its "super-complaint" about the tied-pub business model.
Freedom of information was at the heart of two stories with the Information Commissioner threatening the London Development Agency with contempt of court proceedings for failing to disclose information relating to the acquisition of land for the 2012 Olympics Games, and then ruling that confidential letters between Buckingham Palace and ministers over the crumbling state of the Queen's properties should be disclosed to the public.
The will-they/wont-they continues over the BAA airports sell-off after the overturning of a Competition Commission ruling that BAA must sell Stansted and either Glasgow or Edinburgh airport by March 2011.
And finally Mohamed Al Fayed has been given leave to appeal a decision that overturned a High court order that the Harrods tycoon received almost £750,000 in damages for trespass into oil reserves beneath his Surrey mansion Barrow Green Court.
Photo by SSCusp via Flickr.
“Beard-lovers at the Campaign for Real Ale” – is a totally juvenile, inaccurate and pointless comment. It would be the same as me suggesting that you are no doubt a girly wine drinker! As for the photo you show well to stay with your clichéd style the Neanderthal appears to be drinking ‘Euro-fizz’ and not real ale!
Sorry you feel that way Paul, no offence was meant by my totally juvenile, inaccurate and pointless comment.
FYI I try to support Real Ale whenever I can and I do not myself have a beard.
Re the photo I certainly wouldnt call the gentleman in the picture a Neaderthal, I would call him, in US parlance, a "bear" who seems to be drinking one of the many wonderful San Francisco beers rather than Euro-fizz.