• Jamal Demachkie appears in latest High Court case on relief from forfeiture

    The High Court has handed down judgment in the case of Pineport v Grangeglen [2016] EWHC 1318 (Ch), which concerns the circumstances in which the High Court may exercise its inherent equitable jurisdiction to grant relief from forfeiture for non-payment of rent.  The delay in the tenant applying for relief (some 14 months after the lease was forfeited by peaceable re-entry) was one of the longest periods in which a tenant had asked the court...

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