Helix Law

If your residential leaseholder is in breach — whether they’ve sublet without permission, failed to pay service charges, or carried out unauthorised alterations — forfeiture may be your most powerful lever. But it’s also one of the most procedurally demanding routes in residential property law, set against a statutory framework that strongly protects leaseholders. Understandi...

Litigation is a formal remedy for disputes that can’t be resolved via other routes, like negotiation or alternative dispute resolution.

Litigation in England and Wales is governed by the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) which set out a framework to manage a claim pre-trial and during its time in court. However, go behind the scenes, and litigation is about so much more t...

When a building company fails to pay or carry out defective works, and the corporate structure appears to shield the director’s personal assets, the question of whether you can recover directly from the director is critical.

Piercing the corporate veil is one option. However, this has a high bar. Alternatives to access personal assets include wrongful trading, breac...

If you’re classified as a bad leaver, you’ll need to act quickly to protect your shares and any other entitlements. Remedies include challenging the validity of the bad leaver clause and the events that led to this classification.

Bad leaver clauses protect a company from those who exit in adverse circumstances, potentially damaging the rights of other shareholders ...

We receive a lot of enquiries from both leaseholders and freeholders wanting to understand their rights and obligations after it’s been discovered that the cladding mounted to their building is unsafe.

This is no surprise as cladding remediation can be extremely costly. Scaffolding and access alone can run into the millions of pounds.

There are a number o...