Rent Acts

Rent Act 1977 — Statutory tenant’s appeal against county court order for possession — Case 2 in Schedule 15 to 1977 Act — ‘Conduct which is a nuisance or annoyance…

Rent Act 1977 — Question whether a registered rent for an unfurnished dwelling applied when the same dwelling was let furnished — Held, upholding decision of county court judge, that…

Rent Act 1977, Case 19 in Schedule 15 — Termination of protected shorthold tenancy — Service of notice of intention to take possession — Whether notice properly served — Whether…

Rent Act 1977 — Technical jurisdictional point in a landlord’s claim for possession based on Case 11 in Schedule 15 to the 1977 Act — Landlord, in order to expedite…

Possession of rent-controlled flat really required by landlord to enable him to sell property and meet his debts–Not ‘reasonably required’ for own occupation–Question of landlord’s prospects and their relevance to…

Rent Act 1977, Schedule 15, Case 3 — Tenant’s appeal from county court judge’s order for possession of cottage — Appellant was the statutory tenant by second succession — After…

Rent Act 1977, Sched 15, Case 9, para (b) — Dwelling-house reasonably required by landlord for ‘any son or daughter of his over 18 years of age’ — Question in…

Rent Act 1977, section 12(1) — Joint landlords — One joint landlord resident — Whether resident landlord exception in section 12(1) applied, so that tenancy was not protected — Tenant’s…

Landlord and tenant — Rent Act — Application of principle of Street v Mountford — Parties entered into an arrangement by which the appellant was allowed into occupation of a…

Rent Act 1977, Schedule 15, Case 11 and Rent (Amendment) Act 1985 — Retrospective effect of latter Act — Application to pending actions — Appeal by owner from decision of…

Landlord and tenant — Rent Act 1977 — Suitable alternative accommodation — Whether reasonable to grant order for possession where dwelling-house is Grade I listed building