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Have you entered into an agreement for lease which is conditional upon the landowner/developer satisfying certain conditions, (such as obtaining planning, carrying out works etc), by a specified end date? Did the agreement also allow both parties to terminate if the conditions weren’t satisfied by this end date?
In these challenging times, it’s useful to remember the old adage that a party cannot benefit from its own breach. Recent case law upheld a prospective tenant’s argument that a developer could not terminate the agreement where it was in breach of its own reasonable endeavours obligations, despite this not being expressly set out in the drafting…so check the wording carefully (and of any exclusions) if you find yourselves unhappily on the wrong end of a termination notice. Footnote – we’ll have to see how this decision goes on appeal. We’ll keep you posted!
Break rights have proved a fertile source of litigation over the last few years. More often than not, tenants have found themselves on the wrong end of the decisions. However, a Court of Appeal decision yesterday has bucked that trend.
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One of the requirements for tenants to contract out of the security of tenure regime contained in the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 is that they make a simple or statutory declaration before entering into the lease.
Landlords should reconsider summary judgment if a Part 26A restructuring plan is pending.
A landlord’s claim for summary judgment to recover rent and service charge arrears accrued since the start of the pandemic against a non-essential retailer succeeded. Like London buses, a second such case has followed hot on its heels.
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