Right of pre-emption – construction – trigger event – ‘selling’ property – whether void for uncertainty

Law & Law v Haider [2017] UKUT 0212 (TCC) (Morgan J) (24 May 2017)

Staying with options, we highlight this decision of Morgan J in brief. Whilst not a landlord and tenant case it raises interesting and practical issues on the construction of options and rights of pre-emption and the courts modern approach to badly drafted provisions and efforts to make them work.