TY  - SER
TI  - Ladbroke Hotels Ltd v Sandhu and another
T2  - Estates Gazette
PY  - 1995///
KW  - COMMERCIAL LIFE
KW  - FULL REPAIRING LEASE
KW  - LEASEHOLD PROPERTY (REPAIRS) ACT 1938
KW  - PREDICTED LIFE
KW  - RENT REVIEWS
KW  - REPAIRING COVENANTS
KW  - REPAIRING OBLIGATIONS
KW  - REPAIRS
KW  - STRUCTURAL LIFE
N2  - ChD 9 February 1995. The appellant tenant held a 9-year lease of hotel premises subject to rent review provisions. It was common ground that at review it was to be assumed that they had complied with its repairing covenant. At the 1991 review evidence was given that one of the buildings had been bedly constructed and needed extensive works estimated at £500,000 to adequately remedy serious defects or £60,000 for a schedule of repairs on the assumption that the building had a commercial life of 15 years. The arbitrator held that it was not open to the tenant to limit remedial repairs and it must be assumed that the repairing covenant obliged the tenant to carry out the full repairs. The tenant appealed on the grounds that the arbitrator had erred in disregarding the fact that a building may have a commercial life different from its structural life. The appeal was dismissed
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