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Guess who? Serving notice to the right recipient

13 January 2023 / Caroline Shea KC , Thomas Rothwell
Issue: 8008 / Categories: Features , Property , Landlord&tenant
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The incurable case of the misidentified tenant: Caroline Shea KC & Thomas Rothwell consider a decision of the Court of Appeal on incorrectly addressed notices
  • In OG Thomas Amaethyddiaeth Cyf and another v Turner and others, the Court of Appeal has ruled that for a notice to quit to be valid, it is a fundamental requirement of the common law that notice is given to the tenant.
  • This implies that a notice addressed to A and received by A cannot be regarded as being a notice given to B, even if A knows that B would have been the correct recipient of it.

Landlord and tenant practitioners will be fully familiar with scrutinising property notices for their substantive validity. Where a notice contains an error, they will also routinely grasp for the ‘reasonable recipient’ test laid down in the well-known case of Mannai Investment Co Ltd v Eagle Star Life Assurance Co Ltd [1997] AC 749.

In last year’s decision in OG Thomas Amaethyddiaeth Cyf and another v Turner and others

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