Walsh v Utting - [2004] 1 NZLR 402

Property law — Lease — Rights of renewal subject to prior written notice to renew — Holding-over provision allowing monthly tenancy — After lessees’ failure to renew, lessees on monthly tenancy — Whether lessor entitled to terminate lease and monthly tenancy in favour of lease with third party — Whether jurisdiction to consider application for relief against forfeiture — Application for possession — Whether appropriate to award costs to lessor — Whether compensation for third-party rights affected by relief against forfeiture — Interpretation Act 1999, s 5(1).