Rent Acts
-
Wigglesworth v Property Holding & Investment Trust plc
Rent Act 1977 — Problems concerning variable rent — Complaint of breach of natural justice rejected — Statutory appeal under Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 from decision of rent assessment…
-
R v Agricultural Dwelling-House Advisory Committee for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire, ex parte Brough
Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 — Application for judicial review, challenging proceedings of agricultural dwelling-house advisory committee established under section 29 of the Act — Committee appointed to advise local housing…
-
McHale v Daneham and others
Claim by owner for possession–‘Temporary Holiday Accommodation Hire Agreement’–Whether agreement a ‘sham’–Licence or tenancy–Rent Act 1977 section 9–Possession order made
-
Grange Lane South Flats Ltd v Cook and another
Rent Act–A somewhat involved procedural matter, but illustrating the substantive point decided in Penn v Dunn–Husband, tenant of flat which was the matrimonial home, left it leaving wife in occupation–County…
-
Swanbrae Ltd v Elliott
Rent Act 1977, Schedule 1, Part I, para 3 — Claim to statutory tenancy by succession — Claimant was daughter of deceased statutory tenant and only question in dispute was…
-
Midanbury Properties (Southampton) Ltd v Houghton and T Clark & Son Ltd v Heathfield (No 2)
Rent assessment committee to whom a decision had been remitted by the court for further consideration again challenged — Committee on previous occasion had been held to have been in…
-
Williams and another v Khan
Rent Act 1977–Assessment of fair rent for a dwelling-house which, by the time the case was heard by a rent assessment committee, had become subject to a closing order–Rent determined…
-
Church Commissioners for England v Baines; Ebied and another v Hopkins and another; Wellcome Trust Ltd v Hammad
Landlord and tenant — Rent Act 1977 — Subtenancy — Whether subtenant of mixed residential and business premises protected on expiration of superior term
-
Street v Mountford
Important decision of House of Lords rejecting the recently acceptable category of the contractual licensee of residential accommodation who has exclusive possession, makes payments in the nature of rent for…
-
Pazgate Ltd v McGrath and others
Rent Act 1977 — Case 6 in Schedule 15 — Effect of vesting assent by executors in favour of a person not named as a beneficiary in the will –…
-
Manaton v Edwards and another
Rent Act 1977, Schedule 15, Case 9 — Issue as to ‘greater hardship’ — Appeal from decision of county court judge in favour of tenant — Hardship on both sides…
-
Tingey v Sutton
Rent Act 1977 — Application of section 141 — Restricted function of county court in determining questions as to the ‘rent limit’ in subs (1)(b) — Function of county court…