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Civil way: 11 July 2025

11 July 2025 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8124 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way , CPR
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Commission ruling; CoA civil guidance; ‘I am opposed by a spaniel’; SLAPPing good definition; lenders shall enquire.

LANDLORDS VULNERABLE

If the ruling of Mr Justice Richards stands in London Trocadero (2015) LLP v Picturehouse Cinemas Ltd and other companies [2025] EWHC 1247 (Ch), business tenants are in for a treat. The landlord in the case, which is part of the Criterion Group with a portfolio of properties worth over £4bn, had procured the sharing of commission paid by insurers to negotiating brokers under a block policy. That commission had been factored into the premium charged up to the tenant. In the final year of the seven years under the

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