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Security of tenure for business tenancies under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 is a key area for a property litigator. Get the research and tools to advise on how security arises and how it’s terminated, daily.

Forfeiture

Guidance covers the procedural and practical considerations prior to and throughout the process of forfeiting a lease. We give detailed guidance, linking deeper commentary, forms, precedents and a wide range of Q&As.

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Guidance to secure rights to install and retain equipment to provide electronic communications services. Code issues, in respect of granting and terminating agreements, frequently arise between landowners and operators.

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My client was due to execute a settlement agreement by deed at our offices. Where that individual is no longer able or willing to travel, can they sign, and their signature be witnessed, remotely?
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My client and/or the instructing solicitor have had to shut their offices part-way through the disclosure exercise as a result of coronavirus (COVID-19). What should we do?
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The prohibition on a landlord taking steps to forfeit a business tenancy on the grounds of non-payment of rent under the Coronavirus Act 2020 has been extended to 25 March 2022. Does this protection only apply to tenants who have not been able to trade or does it apply irrespective of whether or not the tenants have been trading? Does the protection cover leases below six months too?
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Tenants have used a property leased under an assured shorthold tenancy as a cannabis farm and have vanished following a raid by the police. Does the landlord require an order for possession? If so should they use either section 8 or section 21 of the Housing Act 1988? Do they still have to give three months notice?
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A possession order in respect of a property let on a Rent Act 1977 tenancy was obtained over a year ago, which included an order for payment of mesne profits until the occupants vacate. There has been a delay in enforcement by the County Court bailiffs, so the occupants remain in occupation. Can a rent increase be sought through the rent officer whilst the landlord waits for the possession order to be enforced? The rent was last increased two years' ago.
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Associated legal terms

Breach of Covenant

/briːtʃ/ /ɒv,(ə)v/ /ˈkʌv(ə)nənt/

A breach of a term of a lease where a tenant has covenanted (agreed) to do, or to not do something, such as to pay rent or not to part with possession. If an express right is reserved in the lease, the breach may entitle the landlord to forfeit.

Jervis V Harris Clause

A clause in a lease or tenancy agreement which allows the landlord to serve a notice on a tenant to carry out repairs. Where a tenant fails to do so, the landlord may enter, carry out the works itself and recover the costs from the tenant as a debt.

Peaceable reentry

A method of forfeiture where the landlord physically re-enters the premises by manifesting its intention to forfeit the lease, usually by changing the locks.
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