Jacey Property Co Ltd v de Sousa, 28 February 2003 (Court of Appeal, Civil Division).

A court will not re-write a lease to fill a gap between a landlord's and a tenant's repairing covenants. In this case, the tenant's counterclaim for damages for losses incurred before the landlord carried out repairs to the drains failed because the landlord's repairing covenant did not extend to the drains, even though the landlord could recover the costs of those repairs under the service charge.