{"id":11079,"date":"2014-12-19T16:50:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?p=11079"},"modified":"2014-12-19T16:50:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:50:39","slug":"landmark-court-of-appeal-ruling-balances-contrasting-aggregate-and-sets-approaches-to-service-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?p=11079","title":{"rendered":"Landmark Court of Appeal ruling balances contrasting \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcaggregate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsets\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 approaches to service charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #1b5fa8; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><b>Landmark Court of Appeal ruling balances contrasting \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcaggregate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsets\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 approaches to service charges, resulting in boon for landlords and tenants alike<\/b><br \/>\n<em>Ref. Francis v Phillips (2014)<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #1b5fa8; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Section 20 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 limits a landlord\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recovery of the cost of qualifying works from residential tenants by service charge to \u00c2\u00a3250 per tenant. This case explored the term \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcqualifying works\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, contrasting two methods of interpretation with widely different consequences to landlords and tenants alike\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=11018\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">To read the whole article, click here.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landmark Court of Appeal ruling balances contrasting \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcaggregate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsets\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 approaches to service charges, resulting in boon for landlords and tenants alike Ref. Francis v Phillips (2014) Section 20 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 limits a landlord\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recovery of the cost of qualifying works from residential tenants by service charge to \u00c2\u00a3250 per &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?p=11079\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Landmark Court of Appeal ruling balances contrasting \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcaggregate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsets\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 approaches to service charges&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5,1,33,52,19,12,13,9,11],"tags":[77,28,159,29,150,66,92,78,109,259,75,67,61,63,260,261,94,110],"class_list":["post-11079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-regulations-planning-section","category-construction","category-uncategorized","category-green-issues","category-in-case-you-missed-it","category-legal-advice","category-news-section","category-property-market-section","category-property-purchasers-section","category-property-sellers-section","tag-building","tag-building-survey","tag-building-surveyor","tag-chartered-surveyor","tag-development","tag-estate-agents","tag-home","tag-home-buyers","tag-landlord","tag-landmark-court-of-appeal","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-property","tag-property-news","tag-residential-tenants","tag-service-charge","tag-surveyors","tag-tenant"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Landmark Court of Appeal ruling balances contrasting \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcaggregate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsets\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 approaches to service charges - Property Surveying NEWSLETTER<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?p=11079\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Landmark Court of Appeal ruling balances contrasting \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcaggregate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsets\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 approaches to service charges - Property Surveying NEWSLETTER\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Landmark Court of Appeal ruling balances contrasting \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcaggregate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsets\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 approaches to service charges, resulting in boon for landlords and tenants alike Ref. 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