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Business tenants keep their right to choose how to renew

Posted2026-05-19 10:35
AuthorRichard Hugill

In a case decided earlier this month, the Court of Appeal confirmed an unusual but important point for parties to business leases. The key issue The case ( Caterpillar Property Limited & Anor v Park...

The Iran oil crisis: why SMEs can't afford weak commercial contracts

Posted2026-05-08 10:52
AuthorInes Ouadah

Geopolitical shocks rarely stay confined to the headlines. For UK businesses, they tend to surface instead as missed deliveries, price spikes, broken contracts, unpaid invoices and disputes cascading along the supply chain. Whether a business can absorb that...

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Advising Julian Jardine on new art gallery in Colliergate, York

Posted2026-05-01 11:52
AuthorHazel Allsopp

Harrowells Solicitors is pleased to have advised ceramic sculptor Julian Jardine on the opening of a new art gallery on one of York’s most historic streets, Colliergate. The gallery will bring Julian’s distinctive wildlife sculptures...

What is the test for a squatter to be registered as the owner of registered land they are sitting on?

Posted2025-07-01 11:34
AuthorRichard Hugill

Someone attempting to become the owner of land which they are occupying but do not own is known as ‘adverse possession’. On 26 th February 2025, the UK Supreme Court delivered a unanimous decision in a case arising from a long-running boundary...

Law Commission announces likely reforms to business tenancies

Posted2025-06-12 10:07
AuthorRichard Hugill

The UK Government’s body for law reform, the Law Commission, has now announced the likely changes that it will recommend are made to the main legislation governing business tenancies in England and Wales. In my first and second blogs on this...

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Congratulations to Amaya Huntly , Private Client Solicitor and Partner at Harrowells, on passing the final stage of her Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) exams and achieving the internationally recognised Diploma in Trusts and Estates. ...

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