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The Environment Agency published the first Performance League Table under the Carbon Reduction Commitment (Energy Efficiency) Scheme (‘CRC’) earlier this month . One of the ideas behind the CRC is that organisations will be motivated to improve their energy efficiency (and therefore their carbon emissions) not only because they will reduce their energy costs but also because they will want to be well placed in the CRC performance league table. The league table is said to rank the energy efficiencies of each of the participants. It is debatable whether it reveals anything really significant this year, although it is possible that it may do so over time.

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This post was written by Siobhan Hayes and Marjorie Holmes.

Have those involved in property development buried their heads in the sand over the question of competition law applying to land agreements? How many carefully drafted exclusivity arrangements for anchor and major tenants could be unenforceable because of the Competition Act which now applies fully to land agreements? 

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We have previously posted on the impact of the 2009 Goldacre case (Goldacre (Offices) Limited v Nortel Networks UK which ruled that landlords of tenants in administration are able to claim rent as an expense of the administration when the administrators use leasehold property for the benefit of the tenant’s creditors. 

Is this really as good as it seems?

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