Business tenancy
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Watney and another v Boardley
Option in lease of business premises to purchase property–Exercise of option not an ‘instrument of surrender,’ therefore not caught by contracting-out provisions of Law of Property Act 1969, amending Landlord…
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Giannoukakis v Saltfleet Ltd
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, Part II — Application for new tenancy of snack-bar restaurant — Terms agreed except as to rent — Appeal from decision of assistant recorder fixing…
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Chiswell v Griffon Land & Estates Ltd
Business tenancy–Landlord or tenant who sends notice by ordinary post runs the risk of losing his rights under the Act of 1954 should the letter go astray–To be safe, he…
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Secretary of State for Social Services v Rossetti Lodge Investment Co Ltd
Parties agree in principle on a new lease of business premises from 29.9.72 at rent to be fixed–Counter-inflation orders supervene–New rent of £5,000 nevertheless ‘standard rate of rent’ for purposes…
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Nevill Long & Co (Boards) Ltd and another v Firmenich & Co (Unlimited Company)
Landlord and tenant — Part II of Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 — Effect of severance of reversion on rights of way granted to tenants — Before severance freeholders granted…
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Grant and others v Gresham
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954–Possession of public house sought by freeholders from lessee–Whether Part II of Act applied to give lessee security of tenure–On-licensed premises excluded from Act, but exception…
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Meadows v Clerical, Medical & General Life Assurance Society
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, Part II–Application for new tenancy of business premises–Before issue of tenant’s summons claiming new tenancy a consent order had been made in other proceedings whereby…
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Aspinall Finance Ltd v Viscount Chelsea
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, Part II — Application for new tenancy — Whether plaintiff tenants had throughout the relevant period been occupying the same premises for the purpose of…
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Price v Esso Petroleum Co Ltd
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, Part II–Appeal by landlords from decision of county court judge on preliminary issues–New lease opposed by landlords under section 30(1)(f) satisfied–Whether section 31A(1)(a) applicable–Judge decided…
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Romulus Trading Co Ltd v Henry Smith’s Charity Trustees (No 2)
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, Part II, sections 30(1)(f) and 31A(1)(a) and (b) — Two Court of Appeal and three county court hearings required to elucidate the application of these…
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Hurstfell Ltd v Leicester Square Property Co Ltd
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, Part II, section 30(1)(b) — Alleged ‘persistent delay in paying rent’ — Appeal by landlord company from decision of county court judge who had granted…
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Taylor Fashions Ltd v Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society ; Old & Campbell Ltd v the same
Option for renewal of lease of business premises–Effect of non-registration under Land Charges Act 1925–Beesly v Hallwood Estates–Parties unaware of invalidity of option–Doctrine of equitable estoppel–Transactions carried out and expenditure…