Hindcastle Ltd v Barbara Attenborough

Hindcastle Ltd v Barbara Attenborough - 1996 - Estates Gazette [1996] 15 EG 103-110(8) .

HL 22 February 1996. See ABS54763 (WLR) and ABS51781 (for CA decision). Upheld the decision of the CA that second defendant and their guarantor were liable to pay rent arrears incurred when the company to whom the premises were assigned in 1989 went into liquidation in 1992. The lease had been assigned to the second defendant in 1987, they argued that they had determined the lease in 1989.


DETERMINATION OF LEASE
DISCLAIMER OF LEASE
HINDCASTLE LTD V BARBARA ATTENBOROUGH ASSOCIATES AND OTHERS
INSOLVENCY ACT 1986
Insolvency
LIQUIDATION
ORIGINAL TENANT LIABILITY
PRIVITY OF CONTRACT