Cases - Morcom v Campbell-Johnson
Record details
- Name
- Morcom v Campbell-Johnson
- Date
- [1956]
- Citation
- 1 QB 106
- Legislation
- Keywords
- Dilapidations case law
- Summary
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Although not a case directly concerning dilapidations, but nonetheless considering works in respect of which the court had to decide whether they were improvements or repairs, it was held that:
'If the work which is done is the provision of something new for the benefit of the occupier, that is, properly speaking, an improvement; but if it is only the replacement of something already there, which has become dilapidated or worn out, then, albeit that it is a replacement by its modern equivalent, it comes within the category of repairs and not improvements.'