Business lease — Opposition to renewal on ground of offer of alternative accommodation by claimant landlords — Tenant no longer requiring lease but using proceedings as delaying tactic — Application…
Avonridge Property Co Ltd v Mashru [2005] UKHL 70; [2006] 01 EG 100 considered the question of whether a landlord can avoid liability on disposal of its revision.
Rent review — Retail unit — Lease requiring conversion works by tenant — Rent review clause setting out matters to be assumed and disregarded — Whether works to be disregarded…
Sublease — Landlord’s covenant as to payment of rent under headlease — Liability expressed to cease on landlord disposing of interest — Whether such limitation of liability void — Section…
Lease of commercial premises — Rent review provisions — Time limit for service of tenant’s counternotice — Judge finding time not of the essence for service — Appeal dismissed
Forfeiture — Breach of tenant’s covenant — Whether sharing possession same as sharing occupation in context of covenant — Whether landlord entitled to forfeit for breach not specified in section…
The significance of Riverside Property Investments Ltd v Blackhawk Automotive [2004] EWHC 3052 (TCC); [2005] 1 EGLR 114 is not that it made new law, but that it demonstrates the…
Lease of department store — Part of rent assessable as percentage of turnover — High Court granting declaration that calculation of turnover not including VAT — Whether turnover including sums…
Lease permitting underletting with landlord’s consent — Proviso that underlease to be subject to like covenants and conditions as lease — Whether proviso imposing condition precedent for landlords’ obligation to…
Business tenancy — Tenant applying for new tenancy — Landlords opposing new tenancy — Landlords intending to demolish substantial part of premises — Preliminary issue — Whether landlords establishing reasonable…
Underletting of commercial premises — Appellant landlord refusing consent — Whether refusal reasonable — Reasonable time for giving decision — Relevance of expert evidence — Appeal allowed