Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2002] All ER (D) 91 (Jan)
Court: Court of Appeal, Civil Division
Judge:

Chadwick LJ and Sir Murray Stuart-Smith
Representation Bryan McGuire (instructed by Hodders) for the claimant.
  Janet Bignell (instructed by Vizards Staples & Bannisters) for the defendant.
Judgment Dates: 17 January 2002

Catchwords

Landlord and tenant - Business premises - Notice by landlord to terminate tenancy - Application by tenant for new tenancy - Landlord opposing application by stating intention to occupy premises for the purposes of a business - Landlord not holding controlling interest in business - Tenant first raising landlord's lack of controlling interest in closing speech - Judge adjourning proceedings - Landlord gaining controlling interest during adjournment - Judge admitting further evidence of landlord holding controlling interest - Whether judge correct to admit further evidence.

The Case

A tenant was not entitled to deliberately conceal knowledge that a landlord would be unable to satisfy statutory conditions. To do so would not be compatible with the overriding objective of the CPR and, where a tenant had done so and a landlord had, after the close of evidence, adduced further evidence, the judge had been correct in holding the balance of justice required that additional evidence to be taken into account.

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