Signing under the Companies Act 2006

In Legal Update 2021 we covered the issue about signing as a company, based on the case of Northwood Solihull v Fearn & Ors in the High Court. The landlord won on the point of the section 8 notice and the tenant won on the point of the deposit prescribed information. In January 2022, the Court of Appeal heard the case. Background Northwood Solihull Ltd was the landlord for two tenants, Fearn and Cooke. The tenants took an assured shorthold tenancy before the Deregulation Act 2015 and they were provided with a signed deposit prescribed information certificate. When rent arrears ...