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035			_a(Sirsi) u43079
041			_aeng
245			_aRoyal Life Insurance v Phillips
260			_c1990
350			_a0
490			_aEstates Gazette _v(1990) 43 EG 70-76(4)
520			_aQBD 5 March 1990. By a lease dated 27 January 1977 a company (B) of whom the plaintiffs (R) are the successors in title, let a shop premises for a 20 year term to another company of whom the defendants (P) are the successors in title. The rent for the first five years was £12,000 with a five yearly rent review when it should be increased to the open market value or remain as it was. The rent review was operated in 1981 and increased to £16,000. In June 1986 B wrote to P notifying a rent increase to £39,000, however this letter was headed "subject to contract" and " Without prejudice " and the case rests on whether this deprives the trigger notice of being effective for the purposes of the lease. P queried the high increase but R`s solicitor denied that this was a valid notice as the original letter was not a negotiating document but a notice advocating the rent review procedure . QBD held in R`s favour saying that the letter was a valid notice on the grounds that it had been properly
650			_aRECORDED DELIVERY
690			_aLANDLORD AND TENANT-CASE LAW-RENT REVIEWS
942			_n0
948			_c04/03/1997
999			_c27546 _d27546