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Landlord requiring vacant possession on termination of lease for redevelopment  

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LANDLORD AND TENANT - Business premises (security of tenure) - Application for new tenancy - Landlord requiring vacant possession on termination of lease for redevelopment - Tenant seeking purchase of adjoining site before expiry of lease - Whether tenant obliged to have genuine intention to take up tenancy - Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, s 26(3) Sun Life Assurance plc v Thales Tracs Ltd (formerly Racal Tracs Ltd) and Another CA: Waller, Hale and Dyson LJJ: 10 May 2001 A tenant of business premises who made a request for a new tenancy, under section 26(3) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, was not obliged to have a genuine intention to take up a new tenancy at the time he made the request, and evidence of his state of mind when he served the request was inadmissible because it was irrelevant. The Court of Appeal so held in allowing the appeal of the defendants,...

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