The Weekly Law Reports
[2010] 3 WLR 1125
Chancery Division
Panagopoulos and another
v
Earl Cadogan and another
[2010] EWHC 422 (Ch)
2010 Feb 3,
4,
8,
9;
March 15
March 15
Roth J
Landlord and tenant— Leasehold enfranchisement— Tenants’ right to acquire reversion— Qualifying tenants’ notice to freeholder to exercise collective right to enfranchise— Notice registered— Freeholder subsequently granting long lease to third party of part of property to be acquired by participating tenants including caretaker’s flat— Whether right to enlargement of long leasehold into freehold arising— Whether grant of lease amounting to “disposal severing” freeholder’s interest— Whether flat housing caretaker constituting “common part”— Whether reasonably necessary for claimants to acquire caretaker’s flat “for … proper management or maintenance of … common parts”— Whether lease void—
Law of Property Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo 5, c 20), ss 153, 205(1)(ix)(xxiii)
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Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c 28), ss 2(1)(b)(3)(a), 19(1)(a)
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