Cases - Morcom v Campbell-Johnson

Record details

Name
Morcom v Campbell-Johnson
Date
[1956]
Citation
1 QB 106
Legislation
Keywords
Dilapidations case law
Summary

Although not a case directly concerning dilapidations, but nonetheless considering works in respect of which the court had to decide whether they were improvements or repairs, it was held that:

'If the work which is done is the provision of something new for the benefit of the occupier, that is, properly speaking, an improvement; but if it is only the replacement of something already there, which has become dilapidated or worn out, then, albeit that it is a replacement by its modern equivalent, it comes within the category of repairs and not improvements.'