Family Housing Association v Jones

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLORD JUSTICE BALCOMBE,LORD JUSTICE SLADE,LORD JUSTICE FARQUHARSON
Judgment Date02 November 1989
Neutral Citation[1989] EWCA Civ J1102-1
Docket Number89/1042
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
Date02 November 1989
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10 cases
  • Westminster City Council v Clarke
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 6 February 1992
    ...809 was published on 2 May 1985. The Act of 1985 received the Royal Assent on 30 October 1985. In Family Housing Association v Jones [1990] 1 W.L.R. 779 Balcombe L.J. held at p.790 that in these circumstances Section 79 (3) of the Act of 1985 must have been intended to alter the law and to ......
  • Bruton v London & Quadrant Housing Trust
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 24 June 1999
    ...which a licence rather than a tenancy might be more likely to give. 4I am, however, satisfied that the judgment of Slade L.J. in Family Association v. Jones [1990] 1 W.L.R. 779 was correct although I share his anxiety about the impact of such a result on the Housing Trust. There were, it f......
  • Westminster City Council v Clarke
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 March 1991
    ...a tenancy. But his line of approach was a convenient one to follow in the present judgment. In Family Housing Association v JonesWLR ([1990] 1 WLR 779, 790) Lord Justice Balcombe considered the effect of Street v MountfordELR ([1985] AC 809) in relation to section 79(3) of the 1985 Act. Mr ......
  • Desnousse v Newham London Borough Council and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 May 2006
    ...is an example of a tenancy created in implementation of an authority's duty under what is now section 188(1) of the 1996 Act. Family Housing Association v. Jones [1990] 1 W.L.R. 779 is an example of a licence granted in such implementation, which was held to constitute a tenancy. One might......
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  • Tenancies and Estoppel ‐ After Bruton v London& Quadrant Housing Trust
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 63-3, May 2000
    • 1 May 2000
    ...First National Bank plc vThompson n 6 above.17 At [1999] 3 WLR 150, 158.18 ibid at 157, discussing Family Housing Association vJones [1990] 1 WLR 779.19 ibid at 156–157.The Modern Law Review [Vol. 63426 ßThe Modern Law Review Limited that estoppel turns something which would not otherwise b......

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