Recent work highlights

• Settling a rectification claim for a landlord where the tenant’s fixed break date in the lease differed from the date expressed in the agreed heads of terms. The settlement terms achieved payment of a sum representing one year’s rent for the client.
• Assisting a tenant in navigating a complex break pre-condition relating to its repairing obligations under the lease. The mechanism in the lease involved the appointment of an independent surveyor who was empowered to determine whether the client’s works had been fully completed to satisfy the break pre-condition.
• Acting for a landlord on a forfeiture and arrears claim involving the unlawful assignment and subletting of the premises, including winding up proceedings against the guarantor. Successfully devised a route to issue in the High Court (not normally allowed) to secure early issue and service of proceedings.
• Achieving removal of an encroaching ANPR camera installed by a commercial tenant on the landlord’s land which the tenant initially refused to remove and insisted that the landlord had provided consent.