Rent Acts
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Eaton Square Properties Ltd v Ogilvie
Rent Acts — Fair rent — Service charges — Services provided and charged for by separate management company — Landlords having no liability under the leases to provide services or…
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Watson v Lucas
Rent Act 1977, section 2(1)(b) and Schedule 1, para 3–Whether a married man separated from his wife could be a member of the family of his deceased mistress, with whom…
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Cheniston Investments Ltd v Waddock and another ; Waddock and another v Cheniston Investments Ltd and another
Rent Act 1977, sections 41, 66 and 67 — Fair rent registration — Effect of improvements and refurbishments carried out by landlords on the fair rent of a flat –…
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London Rent Assessment Committee and another v St George’s Court Ltd
Rent Act 1977 — Rents of comparable properties — Duty of rent assessment committee — Whether a committee are entitled to go behind the rents determined by another committee for…
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Meredith v Stevens
Fair rent of Clwyd bungalow–Committee entitled to consider comparables drawn from what they considered a relevant area–No force in remaining criticisms advanced–Landlord’s appeal dismissed
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Daejan Properties Ltd v Mahoney
Landlord and tenant — Rents Acts — Whether landlords estopped from denying that second successor to be treated as holding a statutory tenancy — Whether statutory tenancy can be held…
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Otter v Norman
Rent Act 1977, section 7(1) — Meaning of ‘board’ — ‘Continental breakfast’ — Majority view in Wilkes v Goodwin followed — Appeal by tenant to House of Lords against decision…
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Heath Estates Ltd v Burchell and another
Rent Act–Position of wife remaining in matrimonial home after husband had left it and after subsequent divorce–Tenancy had been vested in husband only–No order for transfer of tenancy applied for…
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Televantos v McCulloch
Rent Act 1977, Schedule 15, Part I, Case 1 — Rent in arrear — Statutory tenancy — Tenant’s counterclaim for damages for breach of covenant implied by section 11 of…
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Henry Smith’s Charity Trustees v Wagle and another
Rent Act 1977 and Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, Part II — Whether premises which had been let as, and for some years used as, an artist’s studio, ie for…
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Metropolitan Properties Co Ltd v Cordery and another
Landlord and tenant–Subtenancy granted by tenant in breach of covenant–Subtenant ignorant of covenant–Subtenant moved into flat and lived there openly for about three years to the knowledge of the landlord…
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Palmer v McNamara
Rent Act 1977, section 12 — Resident landlord exception — Whether landlord qualified as a ‘resident landlord’ for the purpose of the Rent Act despite the facts that the room…