After the landlord asked his tenant to agree to pretend to pay a higher rent for the landlord to give his bank, and the landlord sold on with vacant possession but the tenant stayed, the agreement remained a sham. The new owner had not made a proper enquiry.
Swinton Thomas, Chadwick LJJ
Gazette 08-Apr-1999, [1999] EWCA Civ 1089, (1999) L and TR 460
Bailii
England and Wales
Landlord and Tenant
Leading Case
Updated: 01 November 2021; Ref: scu.78383