The tenant requested a new lease and the renewal of personal rights attached to the first lease. Held: The court could not countenance renewal of purely personal rights under the 1954 Act. It was said that: ‘The object of Part II of the Act is to give security of tenure to business tenants by, inter … Continue reading G Orlik (Meat Products) Ltd v Hastings and Thanet Building Society: 1974

A notice under the Act which specified the penultimate date of the tenant’s term as the date on which possession was required was invalid. The Act required the date to be not before the tenant’s term expired by effluxion. Citations: [1969] 209 EG 1319 Statutes: Lanldord and Tenant Act 1954 27 Landlord and Tenant Updated: … Continue reading Central Estates (Belgravia) Ltd v Webster: 1969

On the renewal of the tenancy under the 1954 Act, the landlord applied to have an interim rent fixed. Held: The interim rent in this case should be set at 100% of the full market rent, because the tenancy had continued for a long time on the contractual basis. Citations: [1992] 42 EG 156 Statutes: … Continue reading Department of Environment v Allied Freehold Property Trust Ltd: 1992