The TFT two step approach to supersession
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Simon Matley
Simon Matley is Head of Dilapidations at TFT, bringing more than 25 years' experience in the commercial property market covering dilapidations, occupier fit-out, refurbishment and new build projects.
Simon’s recent career highlights include project managing the Professional Footballers’ Association office fit out in Manchester, which included a lecture theatre, podcast studio, and an LED screen tunnel right through the middle of an office!
Based in Manchester, Simon leads up our team of dilapidations specialists across the UK, helping landlords and occupiers manage their commercial properties with minimal risk.
Supersession is an undefined quasi-legal term used in dilapidations disputes. In broad terms, most understand it to mean that the actions of the landlord might (or might not) affect their ability to claim certain items from their former tenants. For the first time, an approach to supersession has been developed, based on standard principles of contractual damages claims, which suggests what issues are relevant and how to decide whether the landlord’s claim should or should not be ‘superseded’.The TFT Two Step Approach to Supersession was used as the basis for the first instance of formal RICS guidance on this concept, within the current edition of the RICS Dilapidations Guidance Note (England and Wales), the author of which was TFT’s Jon Rowling.
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