Housing Acts
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Ugiagbe v Southwark London Borough Council
Housing – Homeless person – Good faith – Appellant vacating accommodation at demand of private landlord – Whether appellant becoming intentionally homeless – Whether appellant acting in good faith –…
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Ugiagbe v Southwark London Borough Council
Housing Acts – Homelessness
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Westminster City Council v Boraliu
Possession proceedings – Tenancy granted to respondent by local housing authority in discharge of duties to homeless under Part 7 of Housing Act 1996 – Authority itself holding property on…
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Birmingham City Council v Walker
Secure tenancy – Succession – Respondent’s mother becoming sole tenant by survivorship on death of husband – Concept of secure tenancies subsequently introduced – Whether mother constituting “successor” so as…
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Birmingham City Council v Walker
Secure tenancy — Succession — Appellant’s mother becoming sole tenant by survivorship on death of husband — Secure tenancies subsequently introduced — Whether mother a “successor” so as to prevent…
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Stanley v Ealing London Borough Council
Appellant converting large family house into flats — Whether property constituting block of flats or house for purposes of sections 352 and 372 of Housing Act 1985 — Appeal dismissed
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Higgs v Brighton & Hove City Council
Appellant living in illegally parked caravan — Caravan stolen while appellant absent — Whether loss of caravan amounting to emergency so as to activate rehousing provision in section 189(1)(d) Housing…
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Kensington and Chelsea Royal London Borough Council v Khan and another
Statutory charge — Limitation — Claimants bringing proceedings to recover possession of land pursuant to statutory charges — Judge finding action brought within limitation period and allowing claim — Defendants…
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R v Braintree District Council, ex parte Halls
Restrictive covenant –– Right to buy –– Housing Act 1985 –– Restriction to single dwelling-house use –– Payment demanded for release of covenant –– Whether covenant imposed for improper purpose…
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Ravenseft Properties Ltd v Hall; White v Chubb; Kasseer v Freeman
Housing Act 1988 –– Assured shorthold tenancies –– Section 20 notices –– Assured Tenancies and Agricultural Occupancies (Forms) Regulations 1988 –– Whether section 20 notices “substantially to same effect” ––…
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Chelsea Yacht & Boat Co Ltd v Pope
Landlord and tenant –– Housing Act 1988 –– Assured tenancy –– Houseboat –– Whether letting of houseboat an assured tenancy –– Whether houseboat annexed to land –– Whether a letting…
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Berry v Newport Borough Council
Housing –– Right to buy –– Defective house type –– Section 563(1) of Housing Act 1985 –– Breach of duty –– Measure of damages –– Whether purchaser entitled to damages…