{"id":39188,"date":"2015-01-20T23:32:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T15:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=39188"},"modified":"2015-01-20T23:32:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T15:32:38","slug":"gordon-ramsay-loses-court-battle-over-1m-rent-on-london-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/20\/gordon-ramsay-loses-court-battle-over-1m-rent-on-london-pub\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Ramsay loses court battle over $1M rent on London pub"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay (RoidRanger \/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LONDON — Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is facing a real-life kitchen nightmare after a British judge on Tuesday ruled him personally liable for the 640,000-pound ($1 million) annual rent on a London gastropub.<\/p>\n

Ramsay accused his father-in-law, Christopher Hutcheson, of using an autopen machine to forge his signature on a document making Ramsay personal guarantor for the rent on the York & Albany pub, now a fashionable dining spot.<\/p>\n

But High Court judge Paul Morgan ruled that the contract was binding. He said that when the 25-year lease was signed in 2007, Hutcheson “was acting within the wide general authority conferred on him by Mr. Ramsay” to manage his business.<\/p>\n

He said Ramsay knew that the autopen – a device often used by authors to sign multiple copies of their books – was “routinely used to place his signature on legal documents.”<\/p>\n

“I hold that Mr. Ramsay, acting though his agent Mr. Hutcheson, is bound by the guarantee in the lease of the premises,” the judge said.<\/p>\n

Ramsay fired Hutcheson, the father of his wife Tana, in late 2010, accusing him of gross misconduct.<\/p>\n

The judge ordered Ramsay to make an interim payment to the pub’s owner, Gary Love, of 250,000 pounds. The chef also faces a large bill for legal costs.<\/p>\n

Morgan denied Ramsay permission to appeal, but the chef can ask the Court of Appeal directly to hear the case.<\/p>\n

Ramsay is internationally known for a string of acclaimed restaurants, popular cookbooks and television shows including “Kitchen Nightmares,” `’Hell’s Kitchen” and “The F Word.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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