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Suvini v Anderson, Staines County Court, 13 August 2010 It is well known that notices under section 21(4)(a) of the Housing Act 1988 must give notice to a tenant that "after a date specified ... being the last day of a period of the tenancy ... possession of...
Somerfield Stores Ltd v Spring (Sutton Coldfield) Ltd [2010] EWHC 2084 (Ch) (04 August 2010) This is an interesting case from the District Registry in Birmingham. Although it actually concerns a commercial lease and therefore the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954...
Our new copy of Legal Action flopped onto the mat here at Nearly Legal Towers this morning. Looking at the reported cases a pair of tenancy deposit matters caught my eye. One of these we have already written about here. In Baafi v Mapp, Central London County...
Goremsandu, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Harrow [2010] EWHC 1873 (Admin) As many of you will know the definition of an HMO for the purposes of Council Tax is totally different from that used in the Housing Act 2004 (and in relation to...
Hall & Ors v Mayor of London (On Behalf of the Greater London Authority) [2010] EWCA Civ 817 (16 July 2010) The case report on the appeal between the Mayor of London and various occupiers of Parliament Square Gardens has appeared on BAILII. For those who...
Shi v Jiangsu Native Produce Import & Export Corp [2009] EWCA Civ 1582 (06 October 2009) While perusing our new copy of Legal Action here at Nearly Legal Towers we came across the above case which we had not previously spotted so it is presented here with...
The Scottish Court of Session (Inner House) has been considering how to apply Mannai in relation to mis-identification of the landlord in a break notice.
The Court of Appeal has considered in detail the interpretation of ground 14A
A small victory for the Welsh Assembly this week. They had been trying to get a Legislative Competence Order past Westminster to transfer a series of powers relating to social housing. This was lost in the sweeping up week prior to the dissolution of...
A case in Central London CC has considered the meaning of ‘received’ in relation to tenancy deposit protection.
Another County Court case on tenancy deposits with a couple of unusual arguments.
The High Court of Northern Ireland has been considering the creation of an implied right of way in a wholly normal and innocent set of factual circumstances.