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Missing out on promotion

Language: English Series: Property Week ; 75(7) 13 February 2009, 52(1) Publication details: 2009Subject(s): Summary: Summarises the case of Boots UK Ltd v Trafford Centre Ltd [2008] EWCH 3372(Ch), 8 December 2008 (see L146772). Landlords' solicitors need to be careful when drafting service charge clauses. The Court determined that the definition of 'promotion' within the terms of a lease should be decided not by attempting a comprehensive definition, but to decide whether it was within the ordinary understanding of a form of promotion.

Summarises the case of Boots UK Ltd v Trafford Centre Ltd [2008] EWCH 3372(Ch), 8 December 2008 (see L146772). Landlords' solicitors need to be careful when drafting service charge clauses. The Court determined that the definition of 'promotion' within the terms of a lease should be decided not by attempting a comprehensive definition, but to decide whether it was within the ordinary understanding of a form of promotion.