{"id":3241,"date":"2011-11-14T11:36:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T10:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?p=3241"},"modified":"2011-11-14T11:36:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T10:36:29","slug":"judge-rules-leasehold-service-charges-covered-by-consumer-protection-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?p=3241","title":{"rendered":"Judge rules Leasehold Service Charges covered by Consumer Protection Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Case Reference: Levitt v London Borough of Camden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new case concerning a hot water system disagreement between leaseholder and freeholder in an apartment in the London Borough of Camden, has reached an important conclusion: a ruling that the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations apply to the service charge provisions of long leases. The decision in the present case could be determinative of contribution obligations if similar cases arise elsewhere under similar leases.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of this article and the details of the case, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=3073\">click here.<\/a><a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case Reference: Levitt v London Borough of Camden A new case concerning a hot water system disagreement between leaseholder and freeholder in an apartment in the London Borough of Camden, has reached an important conclusion: a ruling that the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations apply to the service charge provisions of long leases. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?p=3241\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Judge rules Leasehold Service Charges covered by Consumer Protection Laws&#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":[19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-advice","category-news-section"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Judge rules Leasehold Service Charges covered by Consumer Protection Laws - 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=3241\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Judge rules Leasehold Service Charges covered by Consumer Protection Laws - Property Surveying NEWSLETTER\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Case Reference: Levitt v London Borough of Camden A new case concerning a hot water system disagreement between leaseholder and freeholder in an apartment in the London Borough of Camden, has reached an important conclusion: a ruling that the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations apply to the service charge provisions of long leases. 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