A landlord's persistent refusal over months to deliver a registrable lease after valid exercise of an option, combined with failure to acknowledge the tenant's legal rights, constitutes repudiation even where the tenant is in breach of the equitable lease, but the tenant's damages are limited to nominal damages where the tenant lacks planning consent to carry out the permitted use and the landlord would have terminated in any event.
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