The WLR Daily case summaries
[2019] WLR(D) 331
Chancery Division
TFS Stores Ltd v Designer Retail Outlet Centres and others
BMG (Ashford Ltd) and others v TFS Stores Ltd
[2019] EWHC 1363 (Ch)
2019 May 13–16; June 4
Judge Davis-White QC sitting as a High Court judge
Landlord and tenant— Business premises (security of tenure)— Waiver of protection— Tenant’s statutory declarations excluding statutory security of tenure provisions for leases— Declarations failing correctly to specify commencement date of term of the proposed tenancies— Whether statutory declarations valid—
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (2 & 3 Eliz 2, c 56), s 38A (as inserted by Regulatory Reform (Business Tenancies) (England and Wales) Order 2003 (SI 2003/3096), art 22(1))