Cases - Chichester Cathedral v Lennards Ltd
Record details
- Name
- Chichester Cathedral v Lennards Ltd
- Date
- (1977)
- Citation
- 2 EGLR 78, CA
- Legislation
- Keywords
- Commercial property – landlord and tenant – rent review – trigger notice – lease entitling landlord or tenant to give notice requiring a rent review, however such notice needed to propose the new rent – whether the landlord had given a valid trigger notice
- Summary
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The lease stated that either the landlord or tenant could give to the other a notice in writing requiring a rent review, such notice to state the suggested new rent. The landlord gave the trigger notice but omitted to specify a suggested new rent. Because of the wording of the lease, the requirement for the notice to state the suggested new rent was not mandatory but merely directory, so that failure to mention the suggested rent did not invalidate the trigger notice.