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Lease Break Clauses: What could possibly go wrong?
Jon Dickins rounds up recent case law on the vexed issue of interpreting break clauses Recent cases have demonstrated that the courts will tend to side with the landlord if the tenant has not complied strictly with the wording of a break clause. Life is full of uncertainty and, in a competitive commercial property market, …
Cases Referenced
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- Avocet Industrial Estates LLP v Merol Ltd [2011] EWHC 3422 (Ch)
- Canonical UK Ltd v TST Millbank LLC [2012] EWHC 3710 (Ch)
- Gemini Press Ltd v Parsons [2012] EWHC 1608 (QB)
- Hexstone Holdings v AHC Westlink Ltd [2010] EWHC 1280 (Ch)
- MW Trustees Ltd v Telular Corporation [2011] EWHC 104 (Ch)
- NYK Logistics (UK) Ltd v Ibrend Estates BV [2011] EWCA Civ 683
- PCE Investors Ltd v Cancer Research UK [2012] EWHC 884 (Ch)
- The Hotgroup plc v The Royal Bank of Scotland plc [2010] EWHC 1241 (Ch)