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Administrative Court
[2025] EWHC 2751 (Admin)
Fecha:
24-Oct-2025
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Lord Justice Holgate and Mr Justice Foxton This judgment is set out under the following headings
The parties
The issues raised by the parties
The legislative history
The LFRA 2024
Article 1 of the First Protocol – the legal principles The approach of UK courts to the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights
The structure of A1P1
James v United Kingdom
Strasbourg jurisprudence after James
Are the effects of the wasting asset problem priced into the premia for residential leaseholds?
Proportionality in domestic law – general principles
Assessing the aims of a measure and its justification
The width of the margin of appreciation
General rules or bright lines
Less intrusive measures
The ab ante principle
Indirect discrimination
The requirement for compensation to be reasonably related to the value of the property taken
The concept of market value
The evolution of the measures under challenge
The Law Commission embarks on a further leasehold reform project
Contributions from Government and Parliament
The Law Commission Consultation Paper No.238
Further Government and Parliamentary activity
The Law Commission Valuation Report (No.387)
CMA involvement
The Law Commission Enfranchisement Report (No.392)
The Government moves towards legislation
The Impact Assessment
The Bill
The ECHR Memorandum
Engagement by the claimants in the reform process
After the LFRA 2024 was enacted
Estimates of the impact of the measures The material before the court
The challenge to the IA and Addendum IA
The aims of the measures The rival cases as to the objects of the LFRA 2024
The legislation
Hansard
The statutory interventions prior to the LFRA 2024
The material from 2016 to the enactment of the LFRA 2024
Conclusions as to objects
Are the measures rationally connected with the identified objects?
The Ground Rent Cap
The background
Whether the objects which the Ground Rent Cap was intended to achieve could have been achieved by a less intrusive measure
The “fair balance” assessment
Conclusion
The Marriage Value Reform
Marriage value and the problem of the tenant’s lease as a wasting asset
Consideration of marriage value in documents leading to the LFRA 2024
Aims
The claimants’ arguments on the justification for the Marriage Value Reform
Whether the objects which the Marriage Value Reform was intended to achieve could have been achieved by a less intrusive measure
The “fair balance” assessment
The submissions of John Lyon’s Charity on the Marriage Value Reform
Conclusion
The Costs Recovery Reform
Aims and justification
Fair balance assessment
Conclusion
The cumulative effect of the measures
Whether the non-exclusion of charities from the measures violates A1P1? Introduction
Consideration of the effect of enfranchisement reform on charities prior to the enactment of the LFRA 2024
The effect on landlords with charitable status
The case for the Portal Trust Introduction
The pre-legislative and legislative process
The objects of the LFRA 2024
Conclusions