This talk will look at what both lawyers and surveyors can do – individually and working together – to reduce the chances of a dispute, or, if a dispute is unavoidable, maximise the client’s prospects of the best possible result:
- Start before the lease is even signed:
- Alterations and reinstatement provisions
- Schedules of condition (not the golden ticket they might seem)
- Before lease expiry:
- The importance of open dialogue
- Taking account of the landlord’s intentions
- Putting the right team together
- Should you do the work? Balancing the risk
- After lease expiry:
- The Protocol – a useful framework
- Doing what’s right for the investment
- The landlord’s works
- Possible futures of the property
- If the worst should happen:
- Valuation issues
- Some important cases
Richard Kay, Partner, Beckett and Kay

