Fixed charge receiver obligations and leaseholder liabilities (Alma Property Management Ltd v Crompton)

Table of contents

• What are the practical implications of this case?
• What was the background?
• What did the court decide?
• Case details

Article summary

Property Disputes analysis: This case involved a range of issues concerning the relationship between the defendants’ powers and duties as receivers, and their obligations under a lease of which they were tenants. The Court of Appeal upheld the first instance judgment, dismissing a claim for specific performance of repairing obligations against the receivers as tenants, and declaring that the landlord had unreasonably withheld consent to their proposed assignment . Written by Rebecca Stephen, property litigation solicitor at Wedlake Bell LLP, and Mark Galtrey, barrister at Falcon Chambers.