Cases - Shell-Mex and BP Ltd v Manchester Garages Ltd
Record details
- Name
- Shell-Mex and BP Ltd v Manchester Garages Ltd
- Date
- [1971]
- Citation
- 1 WLR 612
- Legislation
- Keywords
- Lease renewal
- Summary
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An agreement for the occupation of a petrol filling station was held to be a licence rather than a tenancy. Lord Justice Buckley said:
'One has to find out what is the true nature of the transaction and then see how the Act operates upon that state of affairs, if it bites at all. One should not approach the problem with a tendency to attempt to find a tenancy because unless there is a tenancy the case will escape the effect of the statute.'