Sue Bright
@suejbright.bsky.social
New to bluesky. Legal academic. Following the stories of the building safety scandal, leasehold and housing. And involved with https://blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/housing-after-grenfell-blog/20: do submit posts for consideration.
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🏙️ How do laws shape the production, materialisation, safety and maintenance of residential towers?
✍️📄 @suejbright.bsky.social, Sarah Blandy & Fabiana Bettini map how law interacts with housing financialisation across scales.
📖 Read here: buff.ly/F0e7zsN
#UrbanStudies #VerticalUrbanisation
✍️📄 @suejbright.bsky.social, Sarah Blandy & Fabiana Bettini map how law interacts with housing financialisation across scales.
📖 Read here: buff.ly/F0e7zsN
#UrbanStudies #VerticalUrbanisation
Residential vertical urbanisation: The intertwining of law and financialisation
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June 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🏙️ How do laws shape the production, materialisation, safety and maintenance of residential towers?
✍️📄 @suejbright.bsky.social, Sarah Blandy & Fabiana Bettini map how law interacts with housing financialisation across scales.
📖 Read here: buff.ly/F0e7zsN
#UrbanStudies #VerticalUrbanisation
✍️📄 @suejbright.bsky.social, Sarah Blandy & Fabiana Bettini map how law interacts with housing financialisation across scales.
📖 Read here: buff.ly/F0e7zsN
#UrbanStudies #VerticalUrbanisation
Blog post looks at whether leaseholders have to pay fire safety costs incurred before Building Safety Act. Issues discussed in Court of Appeal hearing and now waiting for judgment blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/housing-afte...
Retrospectivity under the Building Safety Act 2022: A note on the Court of Appeal hearings in Adriatic Land 5 Ltd v Long Leaseholders at Hippersley Point and Stratford Village Development Partnership ...
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk
March 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Blog post looks at whether leaseholders have to pay fire safety costs incurred before Building Safety Act. Issues discussed in Court of Appeal hearing and now waiting for judgment blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/housing-afte...
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Might consumer protection law be a silver bullet against freeholders’ escalating ground rents? (And the threat to reform?)
Are escalating ground rents enforceable?
www.leaseholdknowledge.com/might-consum...
Are escalating ground rents enforceable?
www.leaseholdknowledge.com/might-consum...
Might consumer protection law be a silver bullet against freeholders' escalating ground rents? (And the threat to reform?) - Leasehold Knowledge Partnership
Oxford law professor asks whether escalating ground rents were ever enforceable in the first place.
www.leaseholdknowledge.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Might consumer protection law be a silver bullet against freeholders’ escalating ground rents? (And the threat to reform?)
Are escalating ground rents enforceable?
www.leaseholdknowledge.com/might-consum...
Are escalating ground rents enforceable?
www.leaseholdknowledge.com/might-consum...
Article in Cambridge Law Journal about escalating ground rents. Views must be tested in court (**leaseholders must still pay for now**) but terms may not be enforceable against consumers. Complex legal arguments, and fact specific application.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
ESCALATING GROUND RENTS IN RESIDENTIAL LEASES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION | The Cambridge Law Journal | Cambridge Core
ESCALATING GROUND RENTS IN RESIDENTIAL LEASES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
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February 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Article in Cambridge Law Journal about escalating ground rents. Views must be tested in court (**leaseholders must still pay for now**) but terms may not be enforceable against consumers. Complex legal arguments, and fact specific application.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Does anyone from N Ireland know anything about how estate charges work on these estates? I assume, like in E&W, homeowners expected to pay. What is the legal mechanism used for this?
Road and sewer issues a 'time bomb' for homeowners - BBC News
Some residents in unadopted housing developments in Northern Ireland are left with road and sewer issues.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Does anyone from N Ireland know anything about how estate charges work on these estates? I assume, like in E&W, homeowners expected to pay. What is the legal mechanism used for this?
Blog post on recent FTT RCO for £13m + against 76 respondents at Vista Tower. Post looks at associate liability , the 'just and equitable discretion', and relevant defects. @lkpleasehold.bsky.social @eocs-official.bsky.social @nlc-movement.bsky.social
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/housing-afte...
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/housing-afte...
Vista Tower Remediation Contribution Order – Associate Liability
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk
February 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Blog post on recent FTT RCO for £13m + against 76 respondents at Vista Tower. Post looks at associate liability , the 'just and equitable discretion', and relevant defects. @lkpleasehold.bsky.social @eocs-official.bsky.social @nlc-movement.bsky.social
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/housing-afte...
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/housing-afte...
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As promised, I am happy to share some details on the 1925 centenary event being held in Cambridge later this year. Full programme and registration will be available later in the year. Save the date!
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-ce...
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2025 Conference: Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk
January 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
As promised, I am happy to share some details on the 1925 centenary event being held in Cambridge later this year. Full programme and registration will be available later in the year. Save the date!
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-ce...
www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-ce...
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"why are there still no answers?"
One of the more meaningful things I did workwise in 2024 was to co-host an exhibition of the local response to Grenfell, in graffiti and a timeline, with Cathy Long. We reflect on it here:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
One of the more meaningful things I did workwise in 2024 was to co-host an exhibition of the local response to Grenfell, in graffiti and a timeline, with Cathy Long. We reflect on it here:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
How we make history together – Exhibiting the local aftermath of Grenfell
Having documented the community response after the Grenfell Tower fire, Flora Cornish and Cathy Long recently hosted an interactive exhibition in the local area. They suggest how the collaborative …
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"why are there still no answers?"
One of the more meaningful things I did workwise in 2024 was to co-host an exhibition of the local response to Grenfell, in graffiti and a timeline, with Cathy Long. We reflect on it here:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
One of the more meaningful things I did workwise in 2024 was to co-host an exhibition of the local response to Grenfell, in graffiti and a timeline, with Cathy Long. We reflect on it here:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Most useful list from @alecmorris1.bsky.social Thanks!
Great to see more property lawyers recently join BlueSky. Thought I would create a starter pack to help others save a bit of time:
go.bsky.app/Det29Jz
go.bsky.app/Det29Jz
January 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Most useful list from @alecmorris1.bsky.social Thanks!
My first bluesky post. Matthew Bell of Melbourne Law School explains how the High Court of Australia in Pafburn held a developer's duty to exercise reasonable care to avoid economic loss caused by defects could not be delegated. blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/housing-afte...
Statutory duties of care for construction work: Australia’s High(est) Court has spoken
Source: Matthew Bell
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk
January 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My first bluesky post. Matthew Bell of Melbourne Law School explains how the High Court of Australia in Pafburn held a developer's duty to exercise reasonable care to avoid economic loss caused by defects could not be delegated. blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/housing-afte...