Possession
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White v Knowsley Housing Trust
Assured tenancy – Registered social landlord – Tenant falling into rent arrears – Landlord seeking possession of premises – Court making possession order but suspending execution – Tenant seeking to…
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London & Quadrant Housing Trust v Ansell
Secure tenant – Suspended possession order – Breach – Appellant tenant subsequently paying arrears – Whether secure tenancy reviving – Whether order enforceable – Whether respondent landlord entitled to bring…
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Doherty and others v Birmingham City Council
Travellers — Local authority — Licence agreement — Local authority serving notice to quit on travellers — Authority wishing to use land for public purposes — Whether travellers protected by…
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Knowsley Housing Trust v McMullen
Assured tenancy — Order for possession — Nuisance — Whether appropriate to make order where tenant unable to control behaviour of nuisance-maker and where ASBO in force — Whether terms…
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Clark v Clark and another
Possession claim — Use of site by family company — Circumstances of relocation to site — Whether proprietary estoppel preventing termination of use — Basis for continued use — Claim…
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Manchester City Council v Higgins
Tenant’s son’s anti-social behaviour — Existence of ASBO — Possession order — Whether reasonable to suspend possession order — Recorder seeking court’s direction as to proportionality issue — Appeal allowed
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Lambeth London Borough Council v O’Kane; Helena Housing Ltd v Pinder and another
Possession order — Warrant for possession — Suspension — Tolerated trespasser — Breaches of possession order — Whether landlord waiving breaches — Whether new tenancy created — Appeals dismissed
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Leeds City Council v Price and others
Possession claim by local authority against gypsies — Whether possible to raise defence based on Article 8 of European Convention on Human Rights — Judge answering in negative — Appeal…
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Amrit Holdings Co Ltd v Shahbakhti
Protected tenancy — Possession — Whether alternative accommodation available to tenant where let by him on assured shorthold tenancy — Whether reasonable to order possession — Section 98(1)(a) of Rent…
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North British Housing Association Ltd v Matthews and related appeals; London & Quadrant Housing Trust v Morgan
Assured tenancies — Possession proceedings — Rent arrears — Ground 8 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to Housing Act 1988 — Whether permissible to grant adjournment for purpose of…
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Century (UK) Ltd SA v Clibbery and another
Property — Estoppel — Claim for possession — Whether necessary elements of proprietary estoppel established — Whether assurance capable of founding estoppel — Claim allowed
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Procureur v Alexander
Assured shorthold tenancy — Claimant obtaining possession order on mandatory ground — Whether possible to suspend on ground that order made in action for forfeiture of a lease — Section…