Cases - Friends Provident Life Office v British Railways Board
Record details
- Name
- Friends Provident Life Office v British Railways Board
- Date
- [1996]
- Citation
- 1 AII ER 336
- Legislation
- Keywords
- Dilapidations case law
- Summary
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Where, as in this case, the tenant's interest has been assigned, the original tenant cannot be made liable for increased obligations agreed between the landlord and the assignee (unless the original tenant had consented to the change). The exception would be where the lease entered into by the original tenant envisaged the possibility of variation. That could arise where there was a provision banning alterations without first obtaining the landlord's consent or where there was no ban at all against alterations and the effect of alterations carried out by an assignee extended the property which was subject to, say, tenants' repairing obligations.