TFS Stores Ltd v The Designer Retail Outlet Centres (Mansfield) General Partner Ltd

Subject Matter

LANDLORD AND TENANT — Business premises (security of tenure) — Waiver of protection — Landlords serving notice on tenant to render valid agreements to exclude statutory security of tenure provisions — Tenant’s statutory declarations acknowledging receipt of notices not including commencement date of proposed tenancies — Whether declarations substantially in prescribed form — Whether 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)) — Regulatory Reform (Business Tenancies) (England and Wales) Order 2003, Sch 2, para 8

[2019] EWHC 1363 (Ch); [2019] Bus LR 1970; [2019] WLR(D) 331, Ch D

LANDLORD AND TENANT — Holding over — “Wilfully” — Provision entitling landlord to double annual value where tenant “wilfully” holding over — Whether holding over wilful merely if done deliberately — Landlord and Tenant Act 1730 (4 Geo 2, c 28), s 1

[2019] EWHC 1363 (Ch); [2019] Bus LR 1970; [2019] WLR(D) 331, Ch D

PRACTICE — Possession — Stay of proceedings — Tenant seeking declaration that tenancies not excluded from security of tenure provisions and landlords claiming possession by way of counterclaim — Landlords bringing separate action for declaration — Judge granting order for possession in first action — Parties agreeing to possession order in second action to give effect to judgment — Tenant obtaining permission to appeal in respect of both actions — Practice direction coming into force imposing automatic stay on possession proceedings — Whether automatic stay applying to tenant’s appeals — CPR PD 51Z, para 2

[2020] EWCA Civ 833; [2020] 4 WLR 99; [2020] WLR(D) 399, CA

LANDLORD AND TENANT — Business premises (security of tenure) — Waiver of protection — Landlords serving notice on tenant to render valid agreements to exclude statutory security of tenure provisions — Tenant’s declarations acknowledging receipt of notices not including commencement date of proposed tenancies — Whether declarations substantially in prescribed form — Whether valid — Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (2 & 3 Eliz 2, c 56), s 38A — Regulatory Reform (Business Tenancies) (England and Wales) Order 2003(SI 2003/3096), Sch 2, paras 7, 8

[2021] EWCA Civ 688; [2021] Bus LR 1407; [2021] WLR(D) 288, CA

Appellate History

Commentary

Nearly Legal
Two thirds of a stay Case comment