... which the doctrine of repudiatory breach was enforced. Here, a lease was entered into subject to the repairing covenant on behalf of L implied by the Landlord and Tenant Act 19852. The judgement in this case showed that it was possible to have a repudiatory in a lease as in any other contract. Another such illustrative case is Cricklewood3 in which the doctrine of frustration was brought forward. Here the tenant claimed that due to certain war-time restrictions which the government placed on building, he was not able to complete was required of him. Although it was not this argument that decided the case, but it is an interesting concept which shows that there is no reason why a lease cannot be frustrated, especially seeing as there is no authority which excludes leases from the doctrine of frustration. Although leases can be viewed as a sort of contract, where ...

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