Wendy Mathers, instructed by Bude Nathan Iwanier LLP, acted for the successful Claimant in Peachside Limited v Lee and Keung [2024] EWHC 921 (TCC). The Claimant landlord sought damages for dilapidations at the end of a commercial lease. Unusually, both limbs of section 18(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 were engaged, meaning then Judge had to consider the Landlord’s actual intention as well as objectively considering a hypothetical purchaser of the reversion. There was a substantial divergence of view in the expert valuation evidence which was resolved in the Claimant’s favour.

Read the High Court’s judgment, here.