Summarise the Equality Act 2010
Overview: The Equality Act 2010 consolidates and simplifies previous anti-discrimination laws, aiming to protect individuals from unfair treatment and promote equal opportunities.
What are the 9 protected characteristics in the Equality Act?
- Age,
- Disability,
- Gender reassignment,
- Marriage and civil partnership,
- Pregnancy and maternity,
- Race, religion or belief,
- Sex,
- Sexual orientation.
What authority did the RMCs have to manage the site/what was the legal basis of the RMCs management?
4 party lease
Lessor,
Lessee,
Etate Man Co,
Man Co
How did you establish legal jurisdiction of RMC (L05)?
I ensured we:
- Conducted lease audit
- Reviewed companies house
- Procured land registry documents, including plans and title documents
- Reviewed inspection report & photos
What is the latest RICS Code for service charges?
Service charge residential management Code - 3rd edition - 27 May 2016
What does Section 19 of the Landlord & Tenant Act 1985 relate to?
Reasonableness - service charges must be reasonable
Summarise the Commonhold & Leasehold Reform Act 2002
- Commonhold: The Act established commonhold as a new form of property ownership,
- Right to Manage: Leaseholders gained the right to take over the management of their building
- Leasehold Valuation Tribunals (LVTs) established
- Collective Enfranchisement: The Act simplified the process for leaseholders of flats to collectively buy the freehold
What is a SWOT analysis?
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
What law concerns section 20
Section 20 of the Landlord & Tenant Act 1985
What weaknesses did Asana show you?
Response time issues primarily - but also got these into the open
Describe the data breach by the director
Forwarded an email, copying a non-director, sharing others email addresses
Summarise the new rights under the GDPR?
- Right to be informed: Individuals have the right to know how their personal data will be used, by whom, and for what purpose.
- Right of access: Individuals can request access to their personal data held by an organization.
- Right to rectification: Individuals can request corrections to their personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’): Individuals can request the deletion of their personal data under certain circumstances.
- Right to restrict processing: Individuals can request the limitation of the processing of their personal data under specific conditions.
- Right to data portability: Individuals can obtain and reuse their personal data for their own purposes across different services.
- Right to object: Individuals can object to the processing of their personal data, including for direct marketing purposes.
- Rights related to automated decision-making and profiling: Individuals have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, if it has legal or significant effects on them.
