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Language: English Series: Property Week ; 75(6) 6 February 2009, 56(1) Subject(s): Summary: 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.

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.