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Cobbetts LLP

58 MOSLEY STREET, MANCHESTER, M2 3HZ, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 0845 404 2404
Fax:
Fax 0845 404 2414
DX:
14374 MANCHESTER-1
Web:
www.cobbetts.com
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Manchester, London, Leeds, Birmingham

Richard Mark St John Williams

Tel:
Work +44 845 165 5526
Email:
Cobbetts LLP

Work Department

Technology, media, trade and infrastructure (housing).

Position

Richard advises on a range of constitutional, charity, regulatory and commercial areas for registered providers, ALMO and local authority clients. He has advised the Housing Corporation, the Welsh Assembly Government and the National Housing Federation on governance-related issues as well as advising funders and the Council of Mortgage Lenders on certain regulatory concerns and on the resultant Housing Act 2006.

Career

Devonshires Solicitors 1998; Cobbetts LLP 2005; partner 2008.

Education

Cranleigh School; Durham University (1995 BA geography); College of Law, Chester (CPE); Inns of Court School of Law (BVC; 2001 conversion course).

Leisure

Rugby, sailing, skiing.

Practice Areas

Charities and not-for-profit; Social housing

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Legal Developments by:
Cobbetts LLP

  • Original tenant liability

    It is well known that, until 1996, an original tenant or guarantor remained liable on the tenant covenants under a lease until the end of the lease term. The same was true of assignees, provided that there was a licence to assign containing appropriate covenants from the assignee. 

    - Cobbetts

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