Esselte AB and another v Pearl Assurance plc
Esselte AB and another v Pearl Assurance plc
- 1995
- Estates Gazette (1995) 37 EG 173-178(6) .
ChD 9 May 1995. The second plaintiff (X) subunderlet part of an office block to the defendant tenants (P) for a 5 year term from 15 February 1988. On the same date the first plaintiff (E) sublet the whole office block to P (subject to the subunderlease) also for 5 years. P occupied the whole block until December 1992 and had removed all their equipment by 5 February 1993. E and X sought rent from P until June 1993 on the basis that no notices satisfying the Landlord and Tent Act 1954 s27(2) were served until 5 and 15 January 1993, expressing to expire in June 1993. E and X contended that because occupation was given up before the term date, no notice was due. Held that tenancy within the protection of the landlord and Tenant Act 1954.
ESSELTE AB & ANOTHER V PEARL ASSURANCE PLC
LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT 1954 S27(2)
LEASES
NOTICE TO DETERMINE
SUBLEASE
SUBUNDERLEASE
ChD 9 May 1995. The second plaintiff (X) subunderlet part of an office block to the defendant tenants (P) for a 5 year term from 15 February 1988. On the same date the first plaintiff (E) sublet the whole office block to P (subject to the subunderlease) also for 5 years. P occupied the whole block until December 1992 and had removed all their equipment by 5 February 1993. E and X sought rent from P until June 1993 on the basis that no notices satisfying the Landlord and Tent Act 1954 s27(2) were served until 5 and 15 January 1993, expressing to expire in June 1993. E and X contended that because occupation was given up before the term date, no notice was due. Held that tenancy within the protection of the landlord and Tenant Act 1954.
ESSELTE AB & ANOTHER V PEARL ASSURANCE PLC
LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT 1954 S27(2)
LEASES
NOTICE TO DETERMINE
SUBLEASE
SUBUNDERLEASE