All posts tagged "Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995"
Statutory Interpretation
Jun 2025 – In Darwall and another v Dartmoor National park authority 2025, a ruling by the Supreme Court about the public’s right to camp overnight on Dartmoor is interesting comment about statutory interpretation, following on from Pepper (Inspector of Taxes) v Hart 1992. The normal principles of statutory interpretation are to ascertain the meaning […]
Privity of Contract and Authorised Guarantee Agreement
(2013 Feb) – It is an established rule of English law that a person can only enforce a contract if he (or she) is a party to it, or a lawful assignee of the benefit of the contract. For a business tenancy, the “privity of contract” doctrine means the first (original) tenant can assign his […]