Hilmi & Associates Ltd v 20 Pembridge Villas Freehold Ltd

Subject Matter

COMPANY — Execution of documents — Signature — Company tenant serving notice of claim to exercise right of enfranchisement — Requirement that notice be “signed by” tenant rather than on its behalf — Whether statutory process by which companies “executed” legal documents satisfying requirement — Companies Act 1985, s 36A(4) (as inserted by Companies Act 1989, ss 130(2))

[2010] EWCA Civ 314; [2010] 1 WLR 2750; [2010] Bus LR 1597; [2010] 3 All ER 391; [2010] WLR (D) 90, CA

LANDLORD AND TENANT — Leasehold enfranchisement — Validity of tenants’ notice — Qualifying tenants’ notice to reversioner exercising collective right to enfranchise — Single company director signing notice for corporate tenant — Whether sufficient to satisfy requirement that notice be “signed by” tenant — Whether notice valid — Companies Act 1985, s 36A(4) (as inserted by Companies Act 1989, ss 130(2)) — Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, s 13, 99(5)

[2010] EWCA Civ 314; [2010] 1 WLR 2750; [2010] Bus LR 1597; [2010] 3 All ER 391; [2010] WLR (D) 90, CA