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[2020] WLR(D) 399
Court of Appeal
TFS Stores Ltd v The Designer Retail Outlet Centres (Mansfield) General Partner Ltd and others
The Designer Retail Outlet Centres (Mansfield) General Partner Ltd and others v TFS Stores Ltd
[2020] EWCA Civ 833
2020 June 24; July 2
Sir Geoffrey Vos C, Asplin, Arnold LJJ
Practice— Possession— Stay of proceedings— Tenant seeking declaration tenancies not validly excluded from security of tenure provisions and landlords claiming possession by way of counterclaim— Landlords bringing separate action for declaration— Judge granting order for possession in first action— Parties agreeing to possession order in second action to give effect to judgment— Tenant obtaining permission to appeal in respect of both actions— Practice direction coming into force imposing automatic stay on possession proceedings — Whether automatic stay applying to tenant’s appeals—
CPR
PD 51Z, para 2