Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Winter 2022 #189The parties, who were brothers, held two periodic tenancies as joint tenants: an agricultural tenancy and a commercial tenancy of land at Fir Tree Farm protected respectively under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 and the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. The appellant and a company of which he and his wife were sole directors and shareholders, F N Pile and Sons Ltd, entered into an agreement with the landlord (the agreement) under which he would serve a notice to quit the agricultural tenancy, the landlord would serve a notice to terminate the commercial tenancy in respe...
Kerry Bretherton KC and Katie Gray examine a case that finds that the service of a notice to quit is not a breach of trust Where parties have jointly contracted to rent a property and one of them wishes to quit, he or she cannot be held to a tenancy contract which is dependent for …
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