Richard Snape
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890 appearances
8 recordings
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first heard May 2026
last heard 22 Jul
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It could have bankrupt Canary Wharf if it had been decided in their favour.
The judge actually said in 2011 Brexit was an unforeseen intervening event.
I doubt that actually was being talked about in 2011.
But they decided it didn't render substantial performance impossible because you could still...
You could assign the lease, and the assignment, I think, was subject to somebody with equal standing or equal credit worthiness or sublet to somebody.
And so they eventually sublet to WeWork, so it was all settled.
But again, frustration would possibly bring the lease to an end early in your liability, but not here.
And the case that we did do a podcast on,
I remember, and of local interest to yourself, was Bank of New York, Mellon, and do you remember that one?
Yeah.
Which was a cinema complex in Whitchurch in South Bristol.
In the early days of lockdown, the way they tried amongst other things to argue in the high court that the lockdowns and COVID because the cinema couldn't
obviously open, gave rise to a frustrating event.
There was a lot of discussion about it during lockdowns.
But they failed.
Again, the lockdowns weren't going to last forever, although it felt like an occasion.
And it's only a small amount of the
the time that would have to shut.
You know, the duration, I think, was a 35-year lease.
And when it went to the Court of Appeal, they didn't even bother arguing the frustration.
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