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Article: Landlord wins rent battle with pub firm
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- Evening Post (Bristol UK)
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- September 17, 2009
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A PUB landlord is celebrating a landmark High Court victory which
has seen the rent sought by owners slashed by over Pounds 20,000.
Les Brooker, 52, who runs the White Horse, in Bristol Road,
Hambrook, was taken to court by Enterprise Inns after he refused to
agree to a 54 per cent increase in his pub rent.
After a two-year battle, which has cost Mr Brooker and his wife
Maxine over Pounds 45,000, a judge in the High Court ruled that he
should now pay Pounds 18,000 rent instead of the Pounds 39,000
originally sought by Enterprise.
He said the ruling should give hope to other pub licensees as
well as offering a warning to newcomers to the trade.
He said: "We have to sign a five-year lease and ...