Hexstone Holdings v AHC Westlink

Hexstone Holdings v AHC Westlink - 2011

[2010] EWHC 1280 (Ch) 11 June 2010. Concerns the problem of how to exercise break rights in leases effectively. Defendant tenant (A) tried to exercise a break clause in a lease granted by claimant landlord (H) after A had merged with Eddie Stobart Ltd (E). E, a separate company, served the break notice rather than A. H contended that the break notice was invalid because it did not bear A's name. "Held": HC found for H because the notice was misleading. No evidence proved that A had authorised E to serve the break notice. A should have signed the break notice.


HEXSTONE HOLDINGS LTD V AHC WESTLINK LTD
MANNAI INVESTMENT CO LTD V EAGLE STAR LIFE ASSURANCE CO LTD UK


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