Cawthorne v Hamdan

Subject Matter

LANDLORD AND TENANT — Leasehold enfranchisement — Tenants' right to acquire reversion — Qualifying tenants' notice to landlord to exercise collective right to enfranchise — Part of premises subject to assured shorthold tenancy — Landlord's counter-notice admitting right to enfranchisement and making no leaseback proposals — Subsequent leaseback notice — Whether leaseback notice valid — Whether landlord entitled to leaseback — Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, ss 21(3)(a), 36(2), Sch 9, para 5

[2007] Ch 487; [2007] 2 WLR 185