Burman v Mount Cook Land Ltd

Subject Matter

LANDLORD AND TENANT — Lease — Tenant's right to acquire new lease — Tenant giving notice to exercise right setting out proposals for terms of new lease — Landlord's purported counter-notice making different proposal for premium but not stating whether tenant's right admitted or other proposals accepted — Whether counter-notice required to state whether right to new lease admitted and tenant's proposals accepted — Whether sufficient that tenant not misled — Whether counter-notice valid — Whether tenant entitled to order for grant of new lease — Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, s 45(2)(a)(3)

[2002] Ch 256; [2002] 2 WLR 1172