The origins of service charges -- General principles and elements -- Drafting and negotiating service charge provision -- The procedure for collection -- Some specific services and works -- Other service charge provisions -- Sinking funds and reserve funds -- Service charges and rent -- The main statutory provisions affecting service charges -- Statutory provision applying in limited cases -- The codes of practice -- Management companies and similar bodies -- Apportionments on sale and surrender -- Maximising service charge recovery for leases -- Challenging a service charge demand -- Freehold equivalents of service charges -- Commonhold -- Service charges under various regimes

Discusses the law affecting dwellings and the provisions through which landlords can recover spent money from tenants. Covers both legal and practical elements of service charges, and includes sections on rent charges and commonhold assessment.