The Court of Appeal has been asked to decide whether a notice to
quit served on an agricultural tenant was valid. The notice had
been served on the tenant's address stated in the lease, not
the address that the tenant subsequently notified to the landlord
in writing.
FACTS
The claimant farmed a large agricultural holding with his father
for a number of years under successive tenancy agreements. The
tenancy agreement provided that any notice may be served on a party
to the agreement:
'at the address given in the Particulars or such other
address as has been previously notified in writing.'
The agreement recorded the tenant's address as Glebe Way,
Burnham-on-Crouch, but during the negotiation of the agreement the
tenant relocated. On making his first rental payment under the
tenancy agreement in December 2006, the tenant informed the
landlord in writing of his new address.
