Publications

• Peter Best – has been published in the Law Institute Journal, the Australian Property Law Journal and has written commentaries for the CCH, Victorian Conveyancing Service in respect to landlord/tenant, mortgages, strata and cluster titles and remedies available to parties in a dispute concerning land. He has also written commentaries for Butterworths Victorian Pleadings and Precedents in respect to easements, restrictive covenants and sale and recovery of land.
• Peter Best – Peter spends all of his spare time in completing a seminal work entitled Termination of Commercial Leases (to be published by Thomson Reuters), which is well advanced. The text considers all aspects of the law of leases in each State and Territory in Australia and in New Zealand, Ireland and the United Kingdom. The book includes a consideration for each jurisdiction of the law and practice with respect to the creation of leases, common law leases, Statute of Frauds, deeds, notices of default (section 146 Property Law Act 1958), rent, assignments of leases, methods of service of a notice (including by electronic means and by agents), forfeiture by grantees or assignees of the reversion, the procedure for forfeiture or rescission of a lease, re-entry, lessor’s remedies after a forfeiture (including the claim for possession, rental and outgoings arrears, mesne profits and damages, fixtures, enforcement of repairs, dilapidations and “make good” obligations, specific performance), termination of a lease for insolvency, appointment of administrators and liquidators to the leasehold land, the Statute of Limitations, the lessee’s defences and remedies (including waiver, estoppel, election, set-off, relief from forfeiture, relief from rescission), determination of periodic tenancies, determination by surrender, determination by effluxion of time and involuntary determination by operation of law or statute).