All this and more emerges from Sandi Murdoch’s account of the hair-splitting exercise undertaken by the Court of Appeal in Jolley v Carmel [2000] 43 EG 185: see
Q I have agreed subject to contract to sell [lease] on terms that the contract will become unconditional on the obtaining of planning permission by the buyer [lessee]. Are there any particular points to watch?
A Unfortunately, quite a few. Among the matters that may be overlooked are: whether the buyer should be obliged to pursue his application; whether he should take a refusal to appeal; what date, if any, should be taken as a long-stop date by which either completion or termination of the contract should take place.
All this and more emerges from Sandi Murdoch’s account of the hair-splitting exercise undertaken by the Court of Appeal in Jolley v Carmel [2000] 43 EG 185: see Conditional discharge Estates Gazette 11 November 2000, p174.
