The landlord served a statutory notice to terminate the tenancy. The tenant failed to serve a counternotice and lost his statutory protection. The landlord allowed the tenant to hold over under a tenancy at will.
Held: The holding over did not create a new lease binding of the landlord. There had been a common intention only to create a tenancy at will whilst negotiations allowed agreement of terms and an application to the court to have the replacement tenancy excluded from protection.
Citations:
[2000] EGCS 57
Statutes:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Appeal from – London Baggage (Charing Cross) Limited v Railtrack plc CA 2001
The tenant had been in occupation under a tenancy for three years and eleven months when the tenancy was terminated by notice. The tenant held over under a tenancy at will. By the time they finally came to vacate they had been in occupation for more . .
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Landlord and Tenant
Updated: 13 May 2022; Ref: scu.216569