The Weekly Law Reports
[2010] 1 WLR 2750
Court of Appeal
*Hilmi & Associates Ltd v 20 Pembridge Villas Freehold Ltd
[2010] EWCA Civ 314
2010 March 17;
30
Ward, Lloyd, Pitchford LJJ
Company— Execution of documents— Signature— Company tenant serving notice of claim to exercise right of enfranchisement— Requirement that notice be “signed by” tenant rather than on its behalf— Whether statutory process by which companies “executed” legal documents satisfying requirement—
Companies Act 1985 (c 6), s 36A(4) (as inserted by Companies Act 1989 (c 40), s 130(2))
Landlord and tenant— Leasehold enfranchisement— Validity of tenants’ notice— Qualifying tenants’ notice to reversioner exercising collective right to enfranchise— Single company director signing notice for corporate tenant— Whether sufficient to satisfy requirement that notice be “signed by” tenant— Whether notice valid—
Companies Act 1985, s 36A(4) (as inserted by Companies Act 1989, s 130(2))
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Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c 28), ss 13, 99(5)