Right to Manage and Service Charges The New Regime

The Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 introduces a whole raft of legislative changes affecting residential leasehold properties. In particular, it imposes a range of new obligatins and restrictions on freeholders, residents' management companies and property managers. The Act contains many new traps for the unwary, in an already dangerous field. This book will be essential reading for anyone involved in the management of blocks of flats, or considering acquiring the management of their block. Although written by a lawyer well versed in leasehold law, the book's aim is to give a practical guide to a wide variety of management issues, concentrating especially on the pitfalls presented by the new Act and how they may be avoided or overcome. The author, Brian Jones, is a lawyer well known in the field of residential property management. He started to specialise in leasehold law in 1988, especially the litigation side, and has a particular intest in blocks of flats and service charges. Before setting up in practice on his own account in January 2003 Brian was head of the landlord and tenant litigation unit at Shoosmiths.Jones, Brian is the author of 'Right to Manage and Service Charges The New Regime', published 2004 under ISBN 9780728204287 and ISBN 0728204282.