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Landlords and tenants should approach removal and restoration obligations carefully. These obligations often seem clear at the conclusion of negotiations, but become ripe for dispute...

It is not uncommon for a lease to provide one of the parties with a right to make a determination in its discretion. Sometimes the lease requires the party to exercise "reasonable" or "equitable" discretion.

During the pandemic, landlords and tenants questioned whether government restrictions on business relieved tenants of the obligation to pay rent.

Under a typical net lease, flow-through amounts of additional rent are paid in provisional instalments, based on estimates that are reconciled at the end of the fiscal period.

Recent News ReLeases have explored arguments made by tenants who failed to pay rent during the COVID-19 pandemic...