DRAFTING CONCERNS

I am acting for clients taking a ten-year lease of garage premises for use as a MOT station,I made a number of amendments to...I am acting for clients taking a ten-year lease of garage premises for use as a MOT station,I made a number of amendments to the draft lease to remove duplication and surplusage.

The lessors solicitors response was it does no harm.

I took out a definition that was not used anywhere else to which the lessors solicitors responded no, but it does look good.

I questioned an evidently inappropriate tenants covenant to keep the shop windows attractively dressed in a manner appropriate to the neighbourhood asking whether there were any.

The lessors solicitors response was who knows, who cares?.

Is it time for this sort of approach to drafting to be dealt with more drastically? Andrew Melling, Lionel J Lewis & Company, Lee, London