Typically, when people think about the Bar and length of service, we focus on the seniority of the Barristers themselves - what is their year of call, how senior are they, when will they take silk etc? Yet, some of the longest serving members of the legal profession are not the lawyers themselves, but the clerks. So, this month we shine the spotlight on our very own Senior Clerk, Ian Hogg, who turned 20 years as a Senior Clerk last month. For those of you that know Ian,

The Landlord and Tenant Acts 1985 and 1987 (as amended) contain several provisions for the regulation of service charge notices in relation to ‘dwellings’. This lecture concerns one of them: the 18 month time limit on service charge demands contained in s.20B Landlord and Tenant Act 1985. The Statute ‘18.— Meaning of “service charge” and “relevant costs”. (1) In the following provisions of this Act “service charge” means an amount payable by a tenant of a dwelling as part of