Question juridique clé
Whether the repeated fixed-term lease contracts were invalid as impermissible chain contracts by analogy to employment law
Solution extraite
No. The repeated one-year contracts were not shown to be a prohibited circumvention and remained permissible.
Motifs extraits
The court found no protected lease rule being circumvented. The landlord had legitimate reasons for limiting the term, the tenant could have insisted on a longer term, and fixed terms do not create specific tenant rights comparable to employment law.