Brewster v Strathmore Estates (Holding) Limited: SLC 30 May 2007

SLC Agricultural holdings – whether lease dated october 1949 but with stated duration of 14 years from Martinmas 1946 entered into ‘on or after November 1 1948’ for purposes of section 5 of Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 – whether statutory provisions or common law applied to maintenance of fixed equipment – retention of rent – whether tenant required to intimate the correct legal ground on which rent being retained – whether a tenant entitled to rely on retention of rent and claim damages for the same breaches obligations

Judges:

Sheriff MacLeod, D J Houston

Citations:

SLC/228/05

Links:

SLC

Statutes:

Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 5

Jurisdiction:

Scotland

Land, Scotland

Updated: 06 May 2022; Ref: scu.513536