The long anticipated decision of the Court of Appeal in a series of appeals against a decision of the Lands Tribunal that have become known, collectively, as the Sportelli appeals has been handed down. Kerry Glanville, partner at Pemberton Greenish, analyses the Court of Appeal’s decision.

RIGHT TO MANAGE - In the fifth series of plain-English legal articles, Yashmin Mistry, solicitor of Brethertons LLP highlights an area of law of interest to leaseholders – Right to Manage Companies.

Leaseholders pay substantial sums in service charges to their landlords every year, so you would expect that there would be a requirement for landlords to give in return a statement of account of how the service charges were spent. Not so, says John Mills of the Association of Retirement Housing Managers.