Commercial Lease Precedent and Problem Solving Workshop

This advanced level, highly interactive course is taught by two experienced speakers and offers the opportunity to put precedents and amendments suggested by an experienced transactional lawyer under the scrutiny of a litigator to get the perfect outcome! It uses case studies and drafting exercises (working in small groups) to examine in depth those areas that most commonly give rise to difficulties both in negotiating and drafting commercial leases and in dealing with unavoidable problems that arise post completion both for landlord and tenant.

• Alienation: which types of alienation are prohibited? Virtual assignments & declarations of trust; the importance of preconditions; the landlord’s statutory duty and the importance of s19(1A) clauses; the latest on AGAs & guarantors: what is ‘reasonable’? underletting & the passing rent problem
• Break Options: personal or not: the question of revivability - Brown v Root, conditional clauses & the problem of ‘materiality’; remedying defective notices & the role of Mannai; prescribed forms of notice, problems with covering letters & the tricky issue of service
• Breach of covenant: arrears of rent & drafting for practical recoverability; failure to repair & the landlord’s remedies: drafting to avoid problems & enforcing the obligation; latent defects & the overlap with insurance
• Service charges: which amendments benefit the tenant? – Problems with mixed use buildings – challenging the service charge
• Quiet enjoyment and derogation from grant: keep open covenants & anchor tenant problems; behaviour of other tenants – minimising the impact of the landlord’s works - the problem of scaffolding - landlord's regulations

Course Dates

17/09/2012 London	10:00 - 16:45 Venue Information
19/09/2012 Shrewsbury	10:00 - 16:45 Venue Information

This course will be presented by the following speakers, please click on the Speaker & Venue details against any course date to see more information.

Peta Dollar 
has more than 25 years experience of commercial property law. She was a real estate partner at Denton Wilde Sapte for 17 years, and is now a full-time lecturer, trainer and writer. Peta is a member of the Property Consultation Board at the Practical Law Company and a site editor for The Property Law Website at www.propertylawuk.net. She is a member of the editorial board of Landlord and Tenant Review.

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.