Tenants must know who to serve notices upon for collective enfranchisement
Collective enfranchisement – Acquisition of freehold by tenants – Section 13 notice – Original notice not complying with section 13(3) – Whether tenants prohibited from serving further notice with 12…
Leasehold enfranchisement – Notice
Business lease — Renewal — Respondent tenant serving notice at address given as landlord’s address pursuant to section 47 of Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 — New lease granted on…
Business lease – Notice
Section 17 of the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995 requires landlords to act quickly when tenants fall into arrears. They must serve notices on former tenants and guarantors within…
The courts used to take a technical approach to the construction of notices, but the decision in Mannai Investment Co Ltd v Eagle Star Life Assurance Co Ltd [1997] 1…
Notice Option Validity Option in lease to acquire freehold Exercise of option requiring at least three months’ notice expiring within specified period Date of expiry…
Option for tenant to purchase freehold — Requirement for three months’ notice to defendant landlords — Notice served by tenant mistakenly giving expiry date in less than three months –…
Right to buy — Relevant date for valuation — Two notices served 10 years apart — Whether first claim extant — Whether correct valuation date that of first of second…
Right to buy — Relevant date for valuation — Two notices served 10 years apart — Whether first claim extant — Whether correct valuation date that of first or second…
Right to buy — Relevant date for valuation — Tenant serving notices in 1991 and 2001 — Judge holding that 1991 notice still extant — Whether claim impliedly abandoned –…