The Weekly Law Reports
[2023] 1 WLR 2891
Chancery Division
*Prescott Place Freeholder Ltd and others
v
Batin and another (No 1)
[2023] EWHC 435 (Ch)
2023 Jan 24, 25, 26, 27, 30; March 3
Richards J
Landlord and tenant— Lease— Tenants’ right of first refusal— Landlord disposing of freehold to purchaser in breach of statutory duty to give tenants first refusal— Tenants obtaining order requiring purchaser to dispose of freehold to their nominee— Purchaser subsequently granting unregistered equitable leases to third party— Whether purchaser precluded from granting interests after making of order— Whether equitable leases binding tenants’ nominee on acquisition of freehold—
Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 (c 31), ss 12B(5), 19
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