Darkness on the edge of town? Or is the calculation of consequential losses in dilapidations claims harder than it looks? (Part 2)

Author's Biography

Nic Taggart has been consistently rated as a ‘top-tier’ junior for real estate litigation by both Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 for over 12 years and was Chambers and Partners’ Real Estate Litigation Junior of the Year 2011. He deals with all aspects of commercial real estate work, with an emphasis on work involving valuation disputes, such as dilapidations, lease renewals under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 and rent reviews. Being at heart an anarchist, he is also a dab hand at ‘Ground (f)’ claims under the 1954 Act, although he feels more comfortable talking about demolition than reconstruction. Nic is often involved in the sort of cases no one else in Chambers really wants to do, involving recherché matters such as the Electronic Communications Code, manorial and riparian rights and drainage. Nic is an editor of Hill & Redman’s Law of Landlord and Tenant, on the editorial board of The Conveyancer, a co-opted member of The Law Society’s Conveyancing and Land Law Committee, an equally co-opted member of the RICS Dilapidations Forum Steering Group, a contributor to Bullen, Leake & Jacob’s Precedents of Pleadings and a sometime visiting lecturer in property law at both the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford.