Rent Acts
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Guestheath Ltd v Mirza
Rent Act 1977 — Rateable value limits for protected tenancy — Retrospective alteration of rateable values — Original values, which were above the limits for protection at the material times,…
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Aldrington Garages v Fielder
Rent Act–Separate but identical agreements made with two occupiers of same flat at same time–Agreements framed as licences and so as not to confer exclusive possession–Recital that the agreement was…
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R v Rent Officer for London Borough of Camden, ex parte Ebiri and another
Rent Act 1977 — Question whether tenancy was a protected tenancy or excluded from protection as a holiday letting by virtue of section 9 of the Act — Duty of…
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Metropolitan Properties Co Ltd v Griffiths
Landlord and tenant — Rent Act 1977 — Action by landlords against statutory tenant for possession of flat on the ground of breach of covenants — The particular breach alleged…
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McCall v Abelesz and another
A civil action for harassment lies at a tenant’s suit for breach of a term of the tenancy, but not for breach of statutory obligation under section 30 (2) of…
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R v Rent Officer for the London Borough of Camden, ex parte Felix
Rent Act 1977 — Applications by landlord of four properties for judicial review refused — Applications to rent officer to register fair rents signed by some but not all joint…
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Spath Holme Ltd v Chairman of the Greater Manchester and Lancashire Rent Assessment Committee and others
Rent Acts — Assessment of fair rents — Whether rent assessment committee entitled to prefer evidence of other registered fair rents in preference to evidence of rents of assured tenancies
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Royal British Legion Housing Association Ltd v East Midlands Rent Assessment Panel
Rent Act 1977 — Fair rent — Housing association — Section 70 of 1977 Act applied to housing associations by section 86 — Appeal on a point of law by…
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Carega Properties SA (Formerly Joran Developments Ltd) v Sharratt
Rent Act–Appeal against possession order–Scope of Schedule 1, para 3 to Rent Act 1968 (now Schedule 1, para 3 to Rent Act 1977)–Meaning of ‘family’–Whether a person between whom and…
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Wareing v White
Rent Act 1977 — Tenant’s appeal from decision of rent assessment committee — No points of law found to have been established by appellant — Committee’s decision criticised by appellant…
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Brann v Westminster Anglo-Continental Investment Co Ltd
Protected tenant of flat sublets at less than two-thirds of rateable value so as to be able legally to take a premium–An assignment of his lease to the subtenant would…
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Bradshaw and another v Smith
Rent Act 1977, sections 6 and 26–Declaration sought in county court under section 141 of the Act as to whether tenancy was a protected tenancy–Land exceeding 2 acres in extent…