Goldmile Properties Ltd v Lechouritis [2003] EWCA Civ 49

Redevelopment: Keeping the peace

Andrew Ross provides some advice for landlords on how to carry out redevelopment works without interfering with their tenants’ quiet enjoyment ‘When negotiating leases, landlords should seek to include wording which expressly permits them to carry out works of construction, demolition, alteration or redevelopment to the premises themselves, to the building and/or estate in which …

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Remedies: A case for pragmatism

Andrew Williams explores a landlord’s remedies for tenant disrepair during a tenancy ‘The forfeiture route carries many advantages for a landlord; not least of all, claims for forfeiture commonly include a claim for damages.’It is easy to empathise with the landlord of commercial premises who discovers that its tenant has allowed the building to fall …

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Landlord Repairs And Quiet Enjoyment: Parity not priority is Paramount

Nikolas Ireland analyses a case requiring the court to balance the competing interests of the parties to a lease ‘While the focus of the court was on the application for injunctive relief, one eye was firmly on the bigger picture and whether the covenant of quiet enjoyment would be breached by the landlord’s proposed method …

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