High Court Weighs Up Landlord’s Redevelopment Plans With Tenant’s Security of Tenure in Business Lease Renewal - A landlord sought an immediately exercisable break in an unopposed business lease renewal to facilitate a...more
In the 20 years since the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (Part II) was updated in 2003, there have been increasingly vocal calls for it to be revisited. The government announced a review in December 2020, but this fell by the...more
You are a landlord of business premises. You have owned the premises for more than five years. You have granted a lease of your premises to T, which is protected by the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954....more
The County Court has handed down its judgment in the case of Poundland Ltd v Toplain Ltd, in which Poundland Limited argued unsuccessfully that a renewal lease under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 should incorporate...more
In S. Franses Limited v The Cavendish Hotel (London) Limited [2021] the High Court had to determine a number of issues including, importantly, what rent would be payable by the tenant under the terms of its renewal leases of...more
The Upper Tribunal has considered for the first time the relationship between the new Electronic Communications Code and the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, ruling that an operator in occupation under a lease protected by the...more
Earlier this month the High Court handed down its judgment in the case of TFS Stores Limited v The Designer Retail Outlet Centres (Mansfield) General Partner Limited and others which considered whether a number of leases had...more
Last year, we blogged here on the case of EMI Group Limited v O&H Q1 Limited. EMI was a case in which an assignment of a lease was rendered void, as it offended the provisions of the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995...more
The revaluation of rateable values for commercial properties in England, Wales and Scotland comes into effect on 1 April. This revaluation is politically controversial because it will likely cause business rates to rise...more