All articles by Joanna Lampert

Professional

Tenants must tread carefully when surrendering a lease

2017-10-06T00:00:00Z

In the recent case of Co-operative Bank plc v Hayes Freehold Ltd, a tenant surrendered its lease without checking whether the landlord had mortgaged the freehold.

Professional

Protected business tenancies may not be so secure after all

2017-07-27T06:00:00Z

In S Franses Ltd v The Cavendish Hotel (London) Ltd, the High Court held that a landlord is entitled to refuse the grant of a protected business tenancy on redevelopment grounds even where the redevelopment is devised solely for the purpose of evicting the tenant and confers no other benefit ...