Law and Lease is three years old

All of a sudden Law and Lease is three years old.

In my last annual State of the Union – well, state of the blog – address, I recorded that we were still waiting for a resolution of Phillips v Francis. We now have it.

We were also awaiting the Supreme Court’s hearing and decision in Arnold v Britton. We now have that too. It runs to some 45 plus pages, and my project for the next three weeks is to produce a summary of its key points.

From a legal perspective, it is exciting to have service charge cases in the senior courts, although that is not always the case for the parties involved, bearing in mind how stressful litigation can be, and how uncertain its outcome, whatever the apparent merits.

Away from litigation, there was undiluted and untrammelled excitement in the Law and Lease eyrie at the Property Management Awards on 04 December 2014 when the blog won the Best Services Provider award.

I owe a sizeable thank you to my colleagues who came to the ceremony with me: Nick Isaac, Rebecca Cattermole, Paul Stevenson, Harriet Holmes, Katie Gray, Chris Heather, Karen Jones and Joanne Kane. Heavily outnumbered by barristers on the Law and Lease table was my accountant husband, Andrew Potts.

You may have noticed that I have only posted one pen portrait – Philip Rainey QC – in a series that I began earlier in the year. One post does not a series make, but I now have four draft portraits in the wings and plan to publish them over the late summer into the autumn.

Finally, if you are a regular reader of Law and Lease, you will know about my #LawUnleashed initiative. Thank you to those who have contacted me to express an interest in it: I am looking forward to arranging training sessions – with or without tea and jaffa cakes – into the autumn.

Thank you for reading and supporting Law and Lease. Here’s to (at least) another three years.