the Property Law website
Maintained by Gary Webber, barrister


Dilapidation claims

Dilapidations - quantifying the claim - employing the tactics

Topics covered include:

  • Is there disrepair? - Giving back a wholly different thing
  • Asbestos and other statutory regulations
  • Disability Discrimination Act
  • Alteration and re-instatement
  • Schedules of dilapidations
  • Remedies during the term.
  • The basic heads of damage

  • Enforcing repairing covenants during the term
  • Section 18 cap - both limbs

  • Calculating the damage to the reversion - having regard to the cost of repairs

  • Tactics - landlord's and tenant's.
  • Part 36 offers - costs

  • Expert evidence - using surveyors

  • Case management

  • The Property Litigation Association's pre-action protocol

  • Alternative methods of resolving disputes

  • A radical approach?!

Suitable for commercial litigators, commercial property lawyers involved in dilapidation disputes and surveyors.

Course leader: Gary Webber
3 hours CPD


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