Notice to extend lease requires lessee’s personal signature
PP 2002/193
Notice to extend lease requires lessee’s personal signature
Q A notice, served under section 42 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Development Act 1993, to take a new (extended) lease of a flat is signed by an agent on behalf of the lessee. Is it effective?
A No: see St Ermins Property Co v Tingay [2002] EWHC 1673 (Ch); [2002] 40 EG 174, where Lloyd J reluctantly decided that the wording of the section allowed for no other interpretation.
