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Light Bites, Expert Nuggets For The Seasoned Developer: Episode 3 (Podcast)
In this episode, our hosts and rights of light experts, James Souter and Jerome Webb are joined by Barrister, John McGhee KC, Wilberforce Chambers who was leading counsel for the successful defendant Native Land in the recent Bankside case. John and the team discuss how the law protects the right to light and delve into the key elements of the Bankside exploring how it might impact on the mitigation of the rights of light risk going forward.
Light Bites, Expert Nuggets For The Seasoned Developer: Episode 2 (Podcast)
In this episode, our hosts and rights of light experts, James Souter and Jerome Webb are joined by Senior Associate Director, Dr Axel Jacob, GIA to discuss why protect a right to light addressing the human benefits of natural light, rights to light in a modern world and whether too much light is also a problem. If you have any questions regarding rights of light or the topics discussed in this episode, please feel free to reach out to James Souter or Jerome Webb.
Waldram Shines Bright - The Impact of Ludgate House on the Rights to Light Landscape
This month the High Court released its eagerly anticipated decision in Cooper v Ludgate House [2025] EWHC 1724 (Ch). The claim was brought by two leaseholders of flats in Bankside Lofts seeking an injunction to restrain the alleged interference with their right to light caused by Native Land’s recently developed Arbor Building which was the first part of their wider Bankside Yards redevelopment. The Claimant leaseholders were refused an injunction but awarded substantial damages instead.
Relocation: Important factors to consider before moving
More high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) are moving internationally than ever before. But what tax traps and practical considerations should be on their radar? Wealthy families are on the move. Catalysed by political upheaval, economic uncertainty, tax incentives and lifestyle benefits, an estimated 128,000 millionaires are likely to have relocated globally in 2024, according to the Henley Private Wealth Migration Report 2024[1].
Great Estates: What property law developments are expected in 2025?
There are seismic legal changes which are likely to significantly affect many Great Estates during 2025. This summary provides an overview of the key developments which are expected and their anticipated impact. Leasehold reform 2024 saw the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (“LAFRA 2024”) hit the statute books during the wash-up before the general election. The only provisions which have been implemented by the Government so far relate to building safety.
Law Commission's Proposals On Enfranchisement
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A chink of light for circadian rhythms? | Lexology
The past few months have unsurprisingly seen a considerable escalation in the discussion around working from home. Many say it is the future and that soon we will all be doing it whilst others cite loneliness and isolation as well as lost opportunities to collaborate and create. At its worst it has been described as living at work which paints a particularly unhappy picture. Something you may not have considered is the impact that working from home might have on your circadian rhythm.
Is it the end of the road for residential leasehold? | Lexology
With the form of tenure under attack from various quarters, can it survive? While it seems that most of parliament is preoccupied with Brexit, we find ourselves increasingly concerned by the growing attack on residential leasehold from various quarters.
Former star undercover officer: we need a fully legal drugs market
I spent 14 years as an undercover cop, infiltrating some of the most dangerous and violent drug gangs in Britain. Over this time I was stripped at gunpoint, had swords held to my throat, knives stuck in my groin, and put my life in acute danger more times than I can count. I was also very effective. Combined, my drug operations put people in prison for a total of well over a thousand years.
Daring to report: facing death in India
A strong culture of impunity, enjoyed by the powerful in India, is dismantling the very foundations of a thriving media in the world’s largest democracy. In February this year, the Committee to Protect Journalists asked me to co-author a report on the dangers of being a journalist in India. CPJ is a New York City based non-profit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide.
Writing from Diyarbakır under blockade
While writing this article, currently without access to the world, I can’t help but wonder how you will read it. Diyarbak?r, the unofficial capital of the Kurdish people, has been one of the main locations of armed conflict between the PKK and the Turkish state. Since August 2015, numerous curfews have been declared in the city and its villages, hundreds of civilians have been killed, the centre of the 5000 year old city Suriçi was bombed, and half of the old city was totally destroyed.
In Hillary’s America, Wall Street will still own Main Street
It’s a land lacking in meaningful structural reform of the financial system, a place where the big banks have been, and will continue to be, coddled by the government. As this endless election limps toward its last days, while spiralling into a bizarre duel over vote-rigging accusations, a deep sigh is undoubtedly in order. The entire process has been an emotionally draining, frustration-inducing, rage-inflaming spectacle of repellent form over shallow substance.
Hillary Clinton and the end of a narrative
The role of women in leadership is a defining movement for my generation and one of the most pressing global issues of our time. Of the many societal wounds that the current US election has dragged out into the light of day, few feats have been as simultaneously daunting and inspiring to watch as Hillary Clinton’s race towards fracturing that ‘hardest, highest glass ceiling’ of sexism.
Invisible fathers of immigration detention
Lou, who I met one windy afternoon last year, knows all too well the devastation that immigration detention can wreak on one’s family. Lou arrived in the UK as an unaccompanied asylum seeking teenager 15 years ago. Vulnerable and orphaned, life was tough. But then Lou met, fell for and moved in with Sam, a British citizen. After a couple of years, they became pregnant. It was an accident but Lou was delighted when their baby girl, Mary, was born.
Better-off siding with Russia or China: there's no dictator's dilemma today
Whether you are a despot or merely an oligarch, you are likely to be looking longingly at Aleppo at the moment. This is what every leader of an authoritarian regime could ever dream of: a superpower that will support you, that will help you to keep your ruling class in power, that will help you destroy your enemies, but without one-hand tied behind its back; without making you spout pious formulas about peace and democracy. Of course, the deal is that you become a satellite state.
Historic UN vote to negotiate a Nuclear Ban Treaty in 2017
Over 71 years after atomic weapons flattened the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, leading to the development of over 50,000 nuclear weapons by ten nations, a majority of 123 UN Member states have voted to convene a multilateral UN conference in 2017 "to negotiate a legally binding treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination".
29 October 2016 | openDemocracy
“It's not only about us versus the system. The system is really us.” As Iceland’s radical Pirate party approaches the gates of power, we speak to its figurehead Birgitta Jónsdóttir.
I Love Dick: what makes a feminist classic?
Chris Kraus's feminist classic I Love Dick, reissued next week, confronts the reader with complex questions about what it means to be a woman artist and a sexual woman in love with a man. For Chris Kraus’ feminist classic I Love Dick reissued next week feels like perfect timing.
FP 28/10/2016 | openDemocracy
Protection of women human rights defenders must be based on recognizing not only their existence, but also their contribution to creating better societies.
'Bogus' asylum seekers? The ethics of truth-telling in the asylum system
The British tabloids and the Home Office are united by their assumption that asylum seekers who lie during their claims are undeserving of protection. Yet this view runs contrary both to widely held moral principle and refugee law. In 2007, the British Home Office refused asylum to a Congolese individual who claimed to have been persecuted by militia.
I discovered the truth about Singapore's 'war on drugs'. Now I campaign against the death penalty
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The Singaporean criminal justice system expected Yong Vui Kong to die for a mistake he’d made when he was just 19 years old. There are many other stories like his. Yong Vui Kong was my first encounter with the death penalty in Singapore. I was 21 years old, and so was he. But we couldn’t be further apart when I sat in the public gallery of the courtroom and he in the dock, behind a glass pane.
By Kirsten Han Verified, Gabriela Kletzel, Jonas Fossli Gjersø, Caroline Molloy Verified, James Souter, Ben Phillips
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Oil and 'gasolina' in Kurdistan
Spencer Ackerman is an associate editor of the New Republic , where he writes regularly about intelligence and United States national security. His work has also appeared in the Washington Monthly, Salon, CQ Homeland Security, and other publications. There isn't any doubt who runs these streets among the teenage vendors of black-market gasoline in Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
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