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035			_a(Sirsi) u7821
041			_aeng
245			_aCity and Metropolitan Properties Ltd v Greycroft Ltd
260			_c1987
350			_a0
490			_aEstates Gazette _v283(6342) 11 July 1987, 199-205(3)
520			_aChD 23 January 1987. Action by tenants (T) claiming damages against landlords (L) for losses sustained whilst tenants of a flat. When T acquired the lease in 1982 L were in serious breach of the repairing covenant . T commenced their present action in August 1984, the writ originally claiming specific performance of the covenant. The repairs were not carried out until December 1984, by which time T had assigned the lease. T amended the writ to claim consequential damages sustained while they were tenants. L put forward two defences: 1) when T assigned the lease, all rights in respect of it passed to the assignees, including any right to damages 2) the heads of damages were too remote; T had purchased the flat as a speculation for early resale at a profit. ChD rejected the first defence, holding that L`s liability to T for existing breaches was capable of surviving the assignment in the same way as T`s liability to the landlord. Held also, with regard to the second defence, that in pr
690			_aLANDLORD AND TENANT-CASE LAW
942			_n0
948			_c04/03/1997
999			_c4758 _d4758