Housing Acts

Council house re-taken by council mortgagees on default by purchasers–Transaction clothed in a ‘see-through dress’ by council as a purported exercise of a mortgagee’s power of sale–Transfer a nullity–No sale…

Housing — Lease granted pursuant to the right to buy provisions in Housing Act 1985 — Whether covenant to pay service charge void and unenforceable by reason of para 18…

Housing — Secure tenancy — Local authority freeholder acquires by surrender lease subject to Rent Act protected tenancy — Whether tenant holds secure tenancy from local authority

Housing Act 1985, Schedule 1, para 3(1) — Whether a person occupying a flat under a licence from a housing association pending development was a secure tenant — Para 3(1)…

Housing Act 1985 — Right to buy — Tenant holding secure tenancy and qualified to exercise right to buy dwelling-house — Pursuant to section 123(1) and 2(a) of the Act,…

Housing — Secure tenancy — Right to buy — Possession and right to buy proceedings before court — Whether court entitled to hear possession action before right to buy proceedings

Housing Act 1957 — Judicial review sought by monthly tenant to quash closing order — Tenant, owing to nature of his interest, not eligible to appeal to county court under…

Housing Act 1969, section 68 and Schedule 5 — House purchased at site value in pursuance of slum clearance scheme — Question of entitlement to the owner-occupier’s supplement — Appeal…

Housing Act 1985 — Secure tenancy — Ground 2 possession — Nuisance and annoyance to neighbours — Conduct away from dwelling-house — Whether neighbours means adjoining occupiers

Housing Act 1957, section 9 and section 39(2) — Notice under section 9 requiring works of repair served on owners of a block of flats let on long leases –…

Housing Act 1974, section 71A and Housing Act 1957, section 9(1A) — Appeal from decision of Hodgson J dismissing application by freehold owners of a mansion block of flats for…