Weatherhead v Deka New Zealand Ltd (No 2) - [1999] 1 NZLR 453

Property law — Lease — Construction of repair covenant — Consideration of concepts of repair and renewal — Respondent leased premises which included old building — Council required expensive remedial work to be undertaken to building to make it structurally sound — Lease contained a covenant requiring respondent to repair and maintain the premises — Arbitrator had found that repair clause did not render respondent liable to meet cost of remedial work — Whether work to be classified as renewal or repair.