Rent Acts
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Wright v Mortimer
Regulated tenancy — Tenant’s occupation of maisonette — Tenant working as art historian, private client adviser and exhibition organiser — Landlord asserting occupation for business purposes and seeking to determine…
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OSullivan v Barnett and another
Recovery of furnished room — Tenant sharing landlord’s accommodation — Landlord and tenant moving into other premises — Tenant taking up occupation before landlord — Whether landlord occupying same or…
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Whitworth and another v Lipton and another
Residential property — Landlord seeking possession on notice — County court ordering possession as property required as residence for wife and daughter — Wife occupying property for only a few…
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Elitestone Ltd v Morris and another
Owner of land seeking possession – Occupier of bungalow on land resisting on grounds of tenancy from year to year and protection under Rent Act 1977 – Judge deciding bungalow…
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Simmonds v Sawnmun
Registered rent – Effect of improvements and refurbishments – Enlarging demised premises by removal of partition wall – Premises doubled in size – Whether the premises were thereafter to be…
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Mansukhani v Sharkey
Order for possession — Construction — Mortgaged property — Expiration of tenancy of flat — Tenant becoming statutory tenant — Transfer of flat by parents to child — Transferee undertaking…
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Queensway Housing Association Ltd v Chairman of the Chilterns, Thames and Eastern Rent Assessment Co
Fair rents – Rent assessment committees determining fair rents – Landlords appealing approaches taken – Whether determinations in accordance with principles of Curtis v Chairman of the London Rent Assessment…
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Waddock and another v Cheniston Investments Ltd
Residential tenancy — Registered rent — Substantial works of improvement — Furnished tenancy — Second tenancy — Application for fair rent — Tenants claiming rent paid above registered rent
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Lohan v Hilton
Notice to quit — Application for possession order — Alternative accommodation offered — Plaintiff needing property for occupation as residence for himself — Whether suitable alternative accommodation under the Rent…
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Pittalis v Grant
Subtenancy — Determination of headtenancy — Subtenancy protected as a statutory tenancy — Whether subtenancy continues to qualify for protection under Rent Act 1977 — Landlord’s appeal succeeds
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Lewis-Graham and another v Conacher
Possession — Premises — Claim by resident landlord under section 12 — Tenant contending that premises forming tenancy comprised separate building — Work in hand to separate premises — Whether…
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Jones and another v White and another
Oral notice that landlord might wish to return — No written notice — Notice to quit — Possession order — Whether court entitled to make possession order dispensing with requirement…