Rent Acts
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Adair and another v Murrell
Rent Act 1977, section 120 — Premium charged on assignment of protected tenancy by tenant’s trustee in bankruptcy — Premium unlawful in part and in part lawful under section 120(3)(b)…
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Church Commissioners for England v Baines; Ebied and another v Hopkins and another; Wellcome Trust Ltd v Hammad
Landlord and tenant — Rent Act 1977 — Subtenancy — Whether subtenant of mixed residential and business premises protected on expiration of superior term
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Street v Mountford
Important decision of House of Lords rejecting the recently acceptable category of the contractual licensee of residential accommodation who has exclusive possession, makes payments in the nature of rent for…
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Pazgate Ltd v McGrath and others
Rent Act 1977 — Case 6 in Schedule 15 — Effect of vesting assent by executors in favour of a person not named as a beneficiary in the will –…
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Manaton v Edwards and another
Rent Act 1977, Schedule 15, Case 9 — Issue as to ‘greater hardship’ — Appeal from decision of county court judge in favour of tenant — Hardship on both sides…
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Tingey v Sutton
Rent Act 1977 — Application of section 141 — Restricted function of county court in determining questions as to the ‘rent limit’ in subs (1)(b) — Function of county court…
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Smith v McGoldrick
Action for possession–Regulated tenancy–Possession required by landlord for occupation as a residence for himself–‘Admission’ by tenant that she had no defence–Tenant under mistaken impression that she would be rehoused by…
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R v Rent Officer for Kensington and Chelsea, ex parte Noel
Fair rent–Motion for order of certiorari to quash rent officer’s registration–Rent officer’s jurisdiction challenged before hearing–Issue as to whether there was a tenancy or a licence–Rent officer’s discretion to decide…
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Wolff v Waddington
Rent Act 1977, section 12 and Schedule 2 — Resident landlord — Whether two flats formed parts of the same building — Whether plaintiff (respondent to appeal), who claimed to…
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Street v Mountford
Rent Act 1977 — Whether an agreement constituted a tenancy protected by the Act or a licence without such protection — Appeal from county court — Rooms in a building…
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R v London Rent Assessment Panel, ex parte Cliftvylle Properties Ltd.
Rent Act 1977 — Reasons for rent assessment committee’s decision — Adequacy of reasons challenged by landlords — Complaint that committee did not offer adequate reasons for the amount within…
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Bromley Park Garden Estates Ltd v George
Rent Act 1977 — Effect on subtenancy of surrender of superior tenancy — Argument based on section 137(3) of the Rent Act untenable in Court of Appeal in view of…