Residential Tenancy in UK Law
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Renovations in lieu of rent in Spanish tenancy law
Purpose: In the context of difficulties in access to housing, the Spanish Act 4/2013 introduced a new article 17.5 into the Act on Urban Leases 1994 (LAU). This paper regulates the so-called renova...... ... application of renovations in lieu of rent and determineswhether this new scheme,according to the current regulation, may representa true residential alternative forvulnerablepeople or if legislative reform is needed to promote its use.Keywords Housing, Spain, Renovations, Construction, Tenancy, ... ...
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Helen Carr, Brendan Edgeworth and Caroline Hunter (eds), Law and the Precarious Home: Socio Legal Perspectives on the Home in Insecure Times
... ... , which relate to contemporary debates surrounding reform of residential tenancy law across Britain and Ireland ... The contributions in Part one ... ...
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Notices to Quit, Protective legislation and the Joint Tenancy Doctrine
... ... tenant, under what is now section 2 of the Rent Act 1977, at the end of the contractual term of a residential tenancy. The rationale of both decisions was that the legislative provisions concerned created rights in personurn. Lawton L.J ... ...
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A coalition of the (un)willing?. The convergence of landlord and renter interests in the “right to rent”
Purpose: The Immigration Act (2014) at Part 3 established a new regime with private landlords incurring penalties (and potentially criminal liability from 1 November 2016) if they allow a person di...... ... a coalescence of both tenant and landlordinterests, with the Residential Landlords’Association (RLA) a body representing over35,000 private ... To encompass both, thedefinition of a “residential tenancy agreement”was drawn broadly, extending beyond thevarious legal ... ...
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Silence and Sodomy: The Creation of Homosexual Identity in Law
... ... The Times 31 July 1997 (CA) (succession rights under private residential tenancy); Woking BC v Bistram 27 HLR 1 (CA) (homophobic abuse as ... ...
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Tackling rogue landlords and substandard housing. Local authorities’ legal instruments and their effectiveness
Purpose: In 2011, Dutch municipalities requested supplementary legal enforcement instruments to tackle rogue landlords and substandard housing. The national government implemented new legislation g...... ... For example, Dutch tenancy law requires that landlords take care ofrenovation and maintenance of the ... and Bianchi,R. (2018), “Black market and residential tenancy contractsin SouthernEurope:new trends in private law measures”, ... ...
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The Right to Housing
The issue of justice in housing is rarely discussed in political philosophy. Yet, housing crises such as that currently faceSd by the UK highlight the importance of work in this area. In this artic...... ... , but lease rights are based on the rights a person with secure tenancy of rental hous- ing would exercise over that housing. Magdalen College, ... 35. This is the current minimum length of residential tenancy in France. 36. Essert (2016), who justifies a positive ... ...
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The Judicial Control Of Contractual Unfairness*
... ... Skolnick, 396 N.Y.S. 2d. 130 (1977) (commercial tenancy); Fulkerton v. Reese, 599 P. 2d. 550 (1979) (residential ... ...
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Article 8 and McDonald: A Tasty Judgement for Private Landlords but A Hard One to Swallow for Residential Tenants
In 2016, the Supreme Court decided in McDonald v McDonald1 that Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights cannot justify a different mandate to that of the contractual relationship betwe...... ... the furthest this decision goes in assisting the tenant is to “support the notion that article 8 is engaged whenever a court determines a tenancy of residential property and makes an order for possession”.12 ... Strasbourg jurisprudence ... The Supreme Court’s decision to distinguish ... ...
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Hegel’s Hipsters
Property is both revered and reviled. Praised for its connections to autonomy, agency, power and community, property attracts scorching critiques for its implication in exclusion, inequality and in...... ... is reflected in legal doctrines from privacy to residential tenancy to takings ... ...
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