Wainwright v Leeds City Council

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1984
Year1984
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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5 cases
  • Langley and Others v Liverpool City Council and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 October 2005
    ...rather than some other interest like bodily safety: compare Hicks v Chief Constable of the South Yorkshire Police [1992] 2 ALL ER 65." 52 Wainwright was a pre-Human Rights Act 1998 case. These observations are, therefore, obiter dicta. At para 63, Lord Scott left open the question whether c......
  • Lee v Leeds City Council; Ratcliffe and Others v Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 January 2002
    ...of 1961 is an ordinary repairing covenant. It does not only apply to local authorities as landlords, and this court has held in Wainwright v Leeds City Council (1984) 270 EG 1289 that the fact that a landlord is a local authority, which is discharging a social purpose in providing housing f......
  • Quick v Taff Ely Borough Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 July 1985
    ...32 is an ordinary repairing covenant. It does not only apply to local authorities as landlords, and this court has held in Wainwright v. Leeds City Council (1984) 270 Estates Gazette 1289 that the fact that a landlord is a local authority, which is discharging a social purpose in providing ......
  • R (Sinclair Investments (Kensington) Ltd) v The Lands Tribunal
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 8 November 2005
    ...to a recent letting "of what was built as a separate self-contained flat … in a high-class fashionable area …". 60 However, in Wainwright v Leeds City Council [1984] 1 EGLR 67, a case also concerned with a landlord's covenant to repair residential property, installation of damp proofing in......
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