Today I am going to look at something which puzzles a lot of people – fixed terms and periodic tenancies. Many people don’t even realise that periodic tenancies exist. They assume that a tenancy is given for a specific period and then it just ends, and if the tenant stays on they are a squatter….
Two kinds of law It is not always appreciated by non lawyers that there are two kinds of law. Civil law and Criminal law. Civil law – is a complicated system which tries to set out rules to cover all the sorts of situation that may arise in life, and provides for disputes to be…
I was asked this recently by a regular reader, who had heard that only four people can legally own a tenancy. What, he asked, happens with all those tenancy agreements where there are five or more tenants listed? Are the extra people not really tenants then? What about claiming rent off them? Joint ownership of…
Legal letters One of the things you need to do as a lawyer is write letters. In fact you have to a lot of writing generally. But a lot of it is letters. But there is not much point in writing letters if they don’t work. How do you write a letter which is effective?…
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The Free Legal Web – putting the law online
The law on the web For a long time Nick Holmes together with quite a large number of people from the legal profession have been developing an online source of free legal information, termed the Free Legal Web. Excitingly they have now launched a new pilot housing law site. The housing law project This draws…