Assethold Limited v 15 Yonge Park RTM Company Limited
Decision date: 27 September 2011
Neutral citation: [2011] UKUT 379 (LC)
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Short overview
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This appeal concerned whether a claim notice under s.84(3) of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 was invalid because it gave an incorrect registered office for the RTM company. The Upper Tribunal held that s.81(1) can cure inaccuracies in particulars required by s.80(2)–(8), but it does not save a notice where mandatory information is omitted or wrongly given so as to amount to an absence of the required particular; the incorrect registered office therefore rendered the notice invalid. The appeal was allowed and the RTM company was held not entitled, on the relevant date, to acquire the right to manage.
Ratio decidendi
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The ratio is that s.81(1) should be read to cover inaccuracies in any particulars required by s.80(2)–(8) (supported by Regulations 4 and 8), but that an error which in substance omits or fails to provide a mandatory particular (rather than a mere inaccuracy or minor inexactness) cannot be cured by s.81(1) and renders the claim notice invalid.
Obiter dicta
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The judgment suggested obiter that minor typographical or spelling errors in mandatory particulars (for example in a name or office) would amount to "inaccuracies" capable of being saved by s.81(1). It also indicated that the LVT’s reliance on a balance-of-prejudice test was misconceived.