The wrong way to recover service charges
Warwick, Mark
The wrong way to recover service charges - 2008 - Solicitors Journal 152(35) 16 September 2008, 11-13(2) .
Discusses the important Court of Appeal ruling in Leonora Investment Co v Mott Macdonald Ltd (see L145457), on whether a landlord could claim the cost of improvement works as a service charge, where there had been a failure to comply with the procedure set out in the service charge clause in the lease. Concludes that landlords must follow the terms of leases strictly when recovering service charges or face loosing their investment.
LEONORA V MOTT MACDONALD
UNIVERSITIES SUPERANNUATION SCHEME LTD V MARKS & SPENCER PLC
England and Wales--1543-
The wrong way to recover service charges - 2008 - Solicitors Journal 152(35) 16 September 2008, 11-13(2) .
Discusses the important Court of Appeal ruling in Leonora Investment Co v Mott Macdonald Ltd (see L145457), on whether a landlord could claim the cost of improvement works as a service charge, where there had been a failure to comply with the procedure set out in the service charge clause in the lease. Concludes that landlords must follow the terms of leases strictly when recovering service charges or face loosing their investment.
LEONORA V MOTT MACDONALD
UNIVERSITIES SUPERANNUATION SCHEME LTD V MARKS & SPENCER PLC
England and Wales--1543-