Terminating Leases and Tenancy Obligations: A Guide for both Landlords and Tenants

In today’s fast changing property market, it is important that both landlords and tenants are aware of the ways in which they can bring both leases and lease obligations to an end.

Using case studies, this practical course looks at the main areas of law and practice surrounding the ending of leases and its effect on both landlord and tenant covenants.

The course will cover:

• Surrender – Effecting, and avoiding accepting, surrender – The practical steps to take
• Break clauses - Reviewing the impact of recent cases on defects in the exercise of break rights - The tricky problem of ‘material compliance’ - The impact of landlords’ break notices
• Forfeiture - Why it might be worth it, even in a falling market - Practical tips to ensure effective operation of the right to forfeit - The problem of tenant insolvency
• Business tenancies - Steps the tenant can take – section 27 notices or simple vacation? - Practical tips for landlords - Ending the lease after proceedings have started
• Disclaimer – the tricky problem of sub-tenants’ obligations
• Notices to quit – how to use them & when
• The release of landlords’ and tenants’ obligations since the 1995 Act – a review of recent cases

Course Dates

29/05/2012 Portsmouth	10:00 - 13:15 Venue Information
20/06/2012 Birmingham	14:00 - 17:15 Venue Information
26/06/2012 London	14:00 - 17:15 Venue Information
29/10/2012 London	14:00 - 17:15 Venue Information

Sarah Thompson-Copsey 
is a former partner in the London property litigation practice of the firm then known as Denton Hall with over 15 years experience in commercial property disputes. She now works as a freelance legal speaker and writer. She is a co-author of Tenants’ Pre-Emption Rights: A Landlords Guide to the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987, and a site editor of the Property Law website.