Interpretation of leases: An erroneous construction

Tiffany Scott QC and Charlotte Black interpret the Supreme Court’s reversal of the unanimous Court of Appeal decision on the question of reasonableness in Sequent Nominees ‘The majority held that the courts below had treated the question whether consent had been unreasonably refused as effectively determined by an erroneous construction of the lease.’ In Sequent …
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Case study: Changing places

Tiffany Scott QC reports on a Court of Appeal decision confirming that a landlord‘s refusal of consent to an application for change of planning use was unreasonable ‘This is the first decided case concerning the interrelationship between a covenant expressly authorising residential use and a covenant not to apply for planning permission without the landlord‘s …
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