Landlord and Tenant in UK Law

  • M'Alister or Donoghue (Pauper) v Stevenson
    • House of Lords
    • 26 May 1932
    ... ... of the one side or the other whether manufacturer salesman or landlord, customer, tenant, stranger and so on. In this way it can be ascertained ... ...
  • Ofulue and Another v Bossert
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 January 2008
    ... ... (3)(a) The defencecounterclaim was an acknowledgment of the landlord's title but not that he was entitled to possession,in any event it could ... In 1981, the Bosserts were let into the property by a former tenant, Teri Osborne. The Property was in a state of disrepair in consequence of ... ...
  • Cawthorne v Hamdan
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 January 2007
    ... ... Five tenancies were such that the tenant was a qualifying tenant. The sixth was not. Under section 5 of the Act, ... should also have to specify any additional flats which the landlord considers are in this category ... 14 Part ... ...
  • Jervis v Pillar Denton Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 February 2014
    ... ... is the treatment of rent payable under a lease held by a corporate tenant that enters administration. When is the rent no more than a provable debt; ... By the same token if a landlord forfeits for non-payment of rent he is entitled to recover as rent the ... ...
  • Mannai Investment Company Ltd v Eagle Star Life Assurance Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 21 May 1997
    ... ... appeal is concerned with the question whether a notice given by a tenant pursuant to a break clause in a lease was an effective notice. In fact, ... The respondent company was the landlord, and the appellant company was the tenant. The relevant clause was clause ... ...
  • Arnold v Britton and Others
    • Supreme Court
    • 10 June 2015
    ... ... by the respondent, the current owner of the Leisure Park and the landlord under the leases, to be subject to leases containing a service charge ... unnecessary to decide) a landlord may have simpler remedies than a tenant to enforce service charge provisions, that is not relevant to the issue of ... ...
  • Stewart and Others v Watts
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 08 December 2016
    ... ... , among other matters, Mrs Watts did not occupy the Property as a tenant, and she did not have a defence based on discrimination compared with ... In Woodfall on Landlord and Tenant Vol 1 para 1.1023 t his is referred to as " de facto ... ...
  • Places for People Homes Ltd v Sharples
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 July 2011
    ... ... about the effect of a person's insolvency on the right of a landlord to obtain an order for possession of a dwelling let on an assured tenancy ... of such accommodation and its withdrawal from the defaulting tenant and insolvency legislation. The facts ... ...
  • Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza
    • House of Lords
    • 21 June 2004
    ... ... 1 On the death of a protected tenant of a dwelling-house his or her surviving spouse, if then living in the ... After the death of Mr Wallwyn-James the landlord, Mr Ahmad Ghaidan, brought proceedings in the West London County Court ... ...
  • Beaulane Properties Ltd v Palmer
    • Chancery Division
    • 23 March 2005
    ... ... I may use the grazing on the land coloured red on the plan as a tenant at will until further notice, with no rent being paid by me to the ... issue before the Court of Appeal was whether provisions of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, which precluded an application for a new tenancy ... ...
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