The adoption of a revised Dilapidations Protocol has been agreed by the Civil Procedure Rules Committee. This will be adopted to form a pre-action protocol for dilapidations procedures in England and Wales and will come into effect on 1st January 2012.
James Dutton of Goadsby Building Consultancy comments ‘the protocol has undergone changes to bring it inline with the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) and sets out new endorsements for the Landlord, Tenant and their representatives. This new protocol effects the preparation and procedure to be followed by parties in relation to dilapidation claims.
