# Commercial Property Leases: Shaping New Law into Solution-Focused Advice for Your Clients

> Court-Proven, Solution-Focused Answers to 7 Thorny Legal Questions Facing Experienced Practitioners: Directly from Top-Flight KCs and Solicitors

- Format: In-person
- Date: Wednesday, 24 June 2026, 10:00AM to 4:00PM (registration from 9.30AM)
- Venue: The Caledonian Club, 9 Halkin Street, London, SW1X 7DR
- 5 hours CPD
- Rates: Live Attendance £299.00 + VAT per person
- Status: This conference has taken place
- Book: https://whitepaper.co.uk/conferences/comprop26

## Programme

- 09:30 Registration and coffee
- 10:00 Chair's Introduction: Commercial Property Leases: Shaping new law into solution-focused advice for your clients
  - Chaired by James Styles, Stephenson Harwood
- 10:15 Dilapidation: Which way is the wind blowing in dilapidations and repairing claims, in favour of landlords or tenants, and how do you gain an advantage for your clients?
  - Answered by Andrew Walker KC
- 10:55 Renewal Leases: What counts, and will sway the court, when a landlord seeks redevelopment flexibility in a renewal lease after the Ministry of Sound [2025] litigation?
  - Answered by Caroline Shea KC
- 11:35 Morning Coffee
- 11:55 Rent Reviews: How, legally and practically, will the proposed abolition of upwards-only rent reviews play out, and what substitute mechanisms will parties move to instead?
  - Answered by Guy Fetherstonhaugh KC
- 12:35 Green Lease Provisions: How far can landlords go in introducing green lease provisions on renewal, and where can tenants push back, especially on MEES works and cost shifting?
  - Answered by Myriam Stacey KC
- 13:15 Lunch
- 14:00 Waiver of forfeiture: What do recent cases tell us about waiver of the right to forfeit – what are the pinch points for landlords as regards their conduct, considering both remedial and irremediable breaches and continuing and once and for all breaches?
  - Answered by Martin Hutchings KC
- 14:40 Building Safety Issues: What trends are emerging from the latest Property Tribunal decisions and appeals under the Building Safety Act: damp squibs, or important new innovations?
  - Answered by Nicholas Trompeter KC
- 15:20 Overrun
- 16:00 Close of conference

## How to book

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