ChD 2 March 1992. The plaintiff, D, is the tenant under a lease dated July 1987 of an agricultural and sporting estate which includes an Elizabethan hall and a number of cottages, some of which are occupied by estate workers under service tenancies. The estate was an agricultural holding for the purposes of Agricultural Holdings Act 1986. The defendant L is a company registered outside the UK and entitled to the freehold reversion expectant upon the determination of the lease. The rent was payable quarterly. No rent was paid by D from June 1990 to June 1991. In August L`s solicitors gave notice to D that the rent was to be paid within two months. There was no response to this and a notice to quit was issued in October. In August D had gone into liquidation. D, via its liquidator, challenged the notice to pay rent. D`s solicitor asked if any notice had been given under Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 s48 and served a counternotice under Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 s26(1) in respect of