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Dilapidations

Information on Dilapidations

  • Break clauses
  • Break clauses: compliance with repairing and other obligations
  • Civil Procedure Rules and the Dilapidations Protocol
  • Dialogue and disputes
  • Dilapidations claims: overview
  • Dilapidations inspections
  • Dilapidations introduction
  • Dilapidations: dilapidations claims
  • Dilapidations: exaggeration of a claim
  • Dilapidations: mechanical and electrical specialists
  • Dilapidations: the Dilapidations Protocol
  • Further information on dilapidations
  • Key dilapidations issues
  • Preparing and serving a dilapidations schedule
  • Remedies
  • Responding to dilapidations claims
  • Section 18(1) and diminution in value
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  • Dilapidations: dilapidations claims
  • Dilapidations: mechanical and electrical specialists
  • Dilapidations: exaggeration of a claim
  • Break clauses: compliance with repairing and other obligations
  • Dilapidations: the Dilapidations Protocol
  • Dilapidations claims: overview
  • Dilapidations introduction
  • Remedies

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    • Early consideration of the legal issues
    • Landlords' remedies
    • Landlords' damages
    • Forfeiture
    • Landlord entering and carrying out works - Jervis v Harris
    • Specific performance (by the tenant)
    • Tenants' remedies
    • Tenants' damages
    • Specific performance (by the landlord)
    • Tenant carries out the work (self help)
    • Set-off and repudiation
    • Insolvency and frustration
  • Key dilapidations issues

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    • Lease covenants
    • Repair
    • Some specific repair issues
    • Improvements and alterations
    • To maintain/remove fixtures/not to remove fixtures
    • Compliance with statutes
    • Decoration
    • Implied obligations
  • Dilapidations inspections

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    • Right to inspect
    • Carrying out the inspection
    • Specialist reports and testing
  • Preparing and serving a dilapidations schedule

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    • Situations requiring a schedule
    • Layout and format
    • Costing the schedule
    • Professional fees
    • VAT
    • Consequential losses
    • Consideration of the landlord’s actual loss
    • Serving the schedule
    • Quantified demand
  • Responding to dilapidations claims

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    • End of term dilapidations claims
    • Interim claims against tenants
    • Claims against landlords
  • Dialogue and disputes

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    • Dialogue/stocktake
    • Disputes
  • Section 18(1) and diminution in value

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    • Common law measure of damages
    • Section 18(1) – limbs 1 and 2
    • The concept of supersession
    • Assessing the amount of diminution
    • Examples: basic assessment of diminution in value
    • Worked example 1: diminution of value, no supersession
    • Worked example 2: diminution of value, with supersession
    • Case law update
  • Civil Procedure Rules and the Dilapidations Protocol

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    • Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) overview
    • Overriding objectives of the CPR
    • Statements of truth
    • Costs
    • Offers to settle
    • Practical implications of CPR for dilapidations surveyors
    • Dilapidations Protocol overview
    • Practical implications for surveyors dealing with end of term dilapidations claims
    • Surveyor as an adviser and expert
  • Break clauses
  • Further information on dilapidations
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