Dukeminster Ltd v West End Investments (Cowell Group) Ltd
County Court, 2018 (reported in practitioner briefings) · County Court · 2018
The question
Does a misdescription in a s.25 notice invalidate it, and how should the court fix the terms of the renewal?
What was held
The notice was upheld — a reasonable recipient understood what was meant — and the court gave guidance on setting term length and modernised terms.
Traced through secondary practitioner reporting only; we could not verify a primary transcript. Check the report before relying on it.
For a landlord
Get names and addresses right, but a genuine slip that misleads nobody is usually survivable.
For a tenant
Do not build a strategy around a minor defect in the other side's notice.
The provisions this turns on
Apply it to your matter
Read alongside this
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- W (No.3) GP (Nominee A) Ltd & anor v JD Sports Fashion plcNottingham County Court, 22 October 2021 (E00DE178)
- Poundland Ltd v Toplain LtdCounty Court at Brentford, 7 April 2021 (claim F02BM162)
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