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Adverse possession - human rights

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • September 14 2007

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has held that UK legislation, which provided for title to registered land to be acquired by a squatter after 12 years’ adverse possession, does not fall foul of Article 1 (protection of property) of the First Protocol to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

CMS guide to real estate transaction costs in Europe

  • CMS
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  • Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, European Union, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 26 2011

This CMS guide provides a pocket-sized comparison across the principal European countries in which CMS operates

Is this the end of the reduced rate of VAT for energy-saving materials?

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • August 24 2012

The European Commission has requested that the UK withdraws the reduced VAT rate of 5 on certain energy-saving products and materials installed in residential properties

No VAT recovery on service charge for commercial property

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • December 12 2012

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that the provision of property maintenance and cleaning services can form part of the main supply of leasing office premises, implying that its earlier decision in Tellmer is limited to the circumstances of that case

Legal summary of the EU Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • October 18 2007

The EU Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings (the Directive) came into force on 4 June 2003 with the objective of promoting the improvement of the energy performance of buildings across the EU

Industry concerns over EU proposal for "zero energy" buildings

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • June 26 2009

The European Parliament has backed amendments to draft legislation that would require EU Member States to ensure that all buildings constructed after 31 December 2018 consume no more than the amount of energy that they produce from on-site renewable energy sources such as solar panels and wind turbines

Energy performance of buildings

  • RPC
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • October 1 2009

The European Commission (EC) is currently redrafting the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and the consultation process in the UK is being led by the Department for Communities and Local Government

IHT: agricultural relief

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • February 28 2009

The European Commission has formally requested the United Kingdom to amend its legislation in respect of agricultural property and woodlands because, they say, it is discriminatory, being applicable only to property in the United Kingdom

Review of 2009 and preview of 2010

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • January 15 2010

The transition from 2009 to 2010 sees some significant legislative chapters closing, notably the Companies Act 2006, Rome I and II, the Banking Act 2009 and the Lisbon Treaty

General Counsel Update

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • China, European Union, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 7 2011

This is the twenty-seventh in our series of General Counsel Updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

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