Commercial Property solicitor's negligent drafting of lease resulting in unwanted premises
Mr and Mrs V instructed Lovegrove & Eliot solicitors in connection with the assignment of a 10 year lease of business premises. They decided on these particular premises because the lease contained a break clause which meant that they could move in the fifth year. Unfortunately, their solicitors failed to tell them that the break clause was only operable by the original tenant (from whom they took the assignment) and when they moved premises they could not get out of the lease and they were therefore forced to pay rent on two buildings instead of one. If they had been properly advised they would not have taken the premises. We successfully sued their solicitors and recovered £225,000 plus costs for Mr & Mrs V in respect of the wasted rent they had to pay for the now unwanted offices.
Mr & Mrs V