Rent Acts

Rent Act 1977 — Bankruptcy Act 1914 — Lease vested in protected joint tenants — Bankruptcy of tenants — Lease vested in trustee in bankruptcy before end of fixed term…

Rent Act 1977 and Agricultural Holdings Act 1948 — Whether tenancy a protected or statutory tenancy under the Rent Act or a tenancy of an agricultural holding under the 1948…

Rent Act 1977, section 2(1)(a) and Case 13 in Schedule 15 — Protected tenancy acquired by tenant’s fraudulent misrepresentation — Tenant, in order to induce landlord to let to him,…

Rent Act 1968–Objection to registration of fair rent may be withdrawn if other party agrees and rent assessment committee sanctions withdrawal–Divisional Court’s views on withdrawals not accepted–Natural justice–Position misunderstood by…

Landlord and tenant — Letting to limited company tenant with a view to exclude the application of the Rent Act — Question as to the real identity of tenant –…

Rent Act 1977, section 2(1) — Statutory tenancy — Condition requiring occupation of dwelling-house as tenant’s residence — Whether sufficient residence — Two-home question — Appeal by tenant of flat…

Rent Act 1977, Schedule 1, para 7 — Succession to statutory tenancy — Whether claimant, daughter of first successor, was ‘residing with’ her mother at the time of and for…

A subtenant who acquires possessory title as against the mesne landlord does not thereby lose the protection of the Rent Acts as against the freeholder

Rent Act 1977, section 49(4) — Regulated tenancy — Death of original tenant — Questions as to whether he was a contractual or statutory tenant at date of death and…

Landlord and tenant — Rent Act 1977 — Landlord moved to new dwelling-house one week after grant of tenancy — Whether landlord in residence for purposes of resident landlord exception