Cases - Credit Suisse v Beegas Nominees Ltd

Record details

Name
Credit Suisse v Beegas Nominees Ltd
Date
[1994]
Citation
1 EGLR 76
Legislation
Keywords
Commercial property - leases - dilapidations
Summary

A covenant to keep a property in good condition may involve work that is not strictly repair.

'... although Proudfoot v Hart ... has lost ground as to some parts of its reasoning and has been said often to have been misunderstood, the notion illustrated by it that a covenant to keep in a specified state includes an obligation to put into that state has been acted upon, by now, in probably hundreds of cases and still survives. The obligation here is thus not merely to keep in good and tenantable condition, but that the landlord should put the building into that condition.'

Although the case of Wallace v Manchester City Council concerned residential property, the concept of damages for inconvenience has been applied to commercial property and an amount allowed for inconvenience to a corporate tenant's staff and customers, where £40,000 was awarded.