The fax before us

The fax before us - Property Week 75(6) 6 February 2009, 56(1) .

Summarises the case of Orchard (Developments) Holdings Plc v Reuters Ltd, [2009] EWCA Civ 6, 16 January 2009. The court determined that while a lease allowed a landlord to validate, by acknowledgement, a tenant's informal notice to exercise a break clause in a commercial lease, the acknowledgement could not be given after the break date itself.


ORCHARD (DEVELOPMENTS) HOLDINGS PLC V REUTERS LTD
STATUTE OF FRAUDS 1677


England and Wales--1543-