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035			_a(Sirsi) u2293
041			_aeng
245			_aLondon Regional Transport v Wimpey Group Services Ltd
260			_c1986
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490			_aEstates Gazette _v280 (6310) 15 November 1986, 898-900(2)
520			_aChD 6 October 1986. Plaintiff landlords sued defendant tenants for an alleged deficiency in the ground rent tendered for a site on which the tenants had constructed an extension to its headquarters. The tenants counterclaimed for rectification of a lease executed in 1980 between the parties in respect of the site. Both parties believed that a rent review formula expressed in a lease was to the same effect as a formula expressed verbally in the agreement to grant the lease, when in fact it was not. The formula in the agreement was more favourable to the tenant than the surveyors` formula in the lease. After a rent arbitration the landlords claimed the higher rent after applying the lease formula while the tenants tendered the lower rent produced by the agreement formula. The landlord issued a writ claiming the difference; the tenant counterclaimed. Judge held that the remedy of rectification required a mistake in the effect of the document which it sought to rectify. In this case the
690			_aLANDLORD AND TENANT-CASE LAW-BUSINESS TENANCIES
942			_n0
948			_c04/03/1997
999			_c1386 _d1386