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In Australia normally security deposits don’t earn interest, however the Lessee can insert a Clause in the Lease application document that the Lessor place the deposit in an interest bearing deposit and if the Lessor agrees then the security deposit will be held in accordance with the Clause’s terms and conditions.

It very much depends on the matter being handled.Matters that are structured with a well defined scope of work and non-adversarial are usually well suited for a flat fee. Such matters would include preparation of commercial leases, applications for trademarks and copyrights, no-fault divorces, certain administrative hearings and other interactions, uncomplicated visa applications and immigration matters, preliminary criminal hearings and misdemeanor matters to be resolved by disposition, incorporation and corporate governance matters for small corporations,I would never hire a lawyer to handle a litigation matter on a flat fee. The odds of the matter rapidly exceeding the flat fee economics are just too great. Flat fee works best in repetitive situations. When being creative and responsive to adversarial inputs, a flat fee situation inevitably leads to corners being cut and less preparation being put into events with an uncertain future.

About two years ago I took part in a consultation on the future of the Crown Estate in Scotland. I hold a lease in perpetuity on part of the seabed which allows me to discharge effluent from my house sewage treatment plant to the sea. This lease costs me £4 per year. I also hold a lease to take up to 100 tons of sand from an area of foreshore for 20p a ton. I haven’t used that yet.Control of the Crown Estate in Scotland is in the process of transitioning from the Crown to the Scottish ParliamentThe intention is for parts of the Estate eventually to be turned over to the control of local authorities.The Crown Estate in Scotland currently has assets worth around £276 million giving an annual return of around £15 million. Around about 5 percent return.Most of the Crown Estate in terms of area, consists of areas such as the sea bed and foreshore around the coast as well as a number of ports and harbours. The Estate also owns a number of farms and sporting estates, some 37,000 hectares.My concern is not so much that the Crown Estate is a feudal relic - but that the Estate has been a fair and reasonable landlord and I don’t think the Local Authorities will be. I suspect that when local authorities eventually take control they will see seabed leases and so on as a new cash cow and expect more than 5% return. I suspect that if I were to try to get a new lease for effluent discharge from the Local Authority I would end up paying the same as a commercial outflow from somewhere like a fish farm with 20,000 times the volume of outflow. I also suspect that the initial costs would involve things like environmental impact studies as well as engineers drawing s and various calculations from tidal and oceanographic engineers as commercial users must do now. As a domestic user all I had to do for the lease I hold now is prove that the volume of outflow would not exceed a certain amount of specific contaminants or exceed a certain volume. I was able to do that myself at no cost.I don’t trust our local authority not to be rubbing their hands together in glee at the thought of the extra income they can get from Crown rents. I suspect that because the Crown Estate have been somewhat of an anachronism they have been reluctant to draw too much attention to the fact by charging unfair rents or by attaching unreasonable conditions to new lease applications.Actually I would have preferred things to have remained as they were.