Landlord and tenant

Assignment of lease

EMI Group Ltd v O & H Q1 Ltd

  • Chancery Division
  • 16 March 2016
  • Amanda Tipples QC, sitting as a deputy High Court judge
  • [2016] EWHC 529 (Ch)
  • [2016] PLSCS 87
Landlord and tenant – Assignment – Guarantee – Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995 – Claimant guarantor of original tenant seeking declaration that tenant’s covenants void on assignment of lease – Whether 1995 Act precluding guarantor of assignor from becoming
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