The Weekly Law Reports
[2007] 2 WLR 185
Court of Appeal
Cawthorne and others v Hamdan
[2007] EWCA Civ 6
2007 Jan 12;
24
Mummery, Rix and Lloyd LJJ
Landlord and tenant
— Leasehold enfranchisement
— Tenant's right to acquire reversion
— Qualifying tenants' notice to landlord to exercise collective right to enfranchise
— Part of premises subject to assured shorthold tenancy
— Landlord's counter-notice admitting right to enfranchisement and making no leaseback proposals
— Subsequent leaseback notice
— Whether leaseback notice valid
— Whether landlord entitled to leaseback
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Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c 28), ss. 21(3)(a), 36(2), Sch. 9, para 5