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"When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen."

The young Richard Nixon on the Teapot Dome scandal. (Teapot Dome is a place in Wyoming where substantial oil deposits had been reserved for the U. S. Navy which were transferred to an oil company without competition.)

  • The legal framework of development in the UK is complex.

  • We have developed a comprehensive checklist of the many agreements and documents which can be required.

  • It is essential that all documentation including building contracts, consultant appointments, collateral warranties, planning consents, rights of light and oversailing agreements are watertight.

  • If not the project can be subject to costly delays and unforeseen expense. Defective documents can result in a purchaser heavily discounting its offer losing the developer some or all of its profit.