Licence to assign
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Legitimate reasons for refusing a licence to assign were upheld, even though the landlord’s demand for costs was unreasonable
The Landlord and Tenant Act 1988 applies to leases that prohibit tenants from assigning without their landlord’s consent. It places landlords under a duty to consent to a request for…
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Legitimate reasons for refusing licences to assign were vitiated by a landlord’s intransigence on costs
No.1 West India Quay (Residential) Ltd v East Tower Apartments Ltd [2016] EWHC 2438 (Ch) concerned the assignment of long leasehold interests in three high value residential apartments in London
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PP 2012/84
Conveyancers usually play safe when assigning or underletting leasehold premises– and refuse to complete a without a licence to assign or underlet.
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PP 2012/15
Licence to assign: Landlord’s costs
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Mount Eden Land Ltd v Towerstone Ltd
Forfeiture action for breach of covenant against assignment — Landlord contractually entitled to insist on further security in certain circumstances — Landlord insisting on additional guarantors before consenting to assignment…
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Straudley Investments Ltd v Mount Eden Land Ltd
Tenant seeking licence to assign long lease – Landlord anxious to procure surrender of lease – Whether refusal of consent reasonably based on alleged breach of repairing covenant
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PP 2002/29
Until very recently, there were occasions when a landlord who had taken a qualified covenant against assigning could find himself in something of a fix.