the
Property Law
website
Maintained by Gary Webber, barrister
Residential tenancies
This section of the site contains material on landlord and tenant law that is specific to residential occupation of premises (including boats and mobile homes).
The possession page of the property litigation section also contains material that is relevant to residential tenancies.There have been three major statutory developments in relation to residential tenancies in the past three years:
The introduction of measures relating to anti-social behaviour, such as demoted tenancies and injunctions (Anti-social behaviour)
The Civil Partnership Act which received Royal Assent on 18th November 2004 is a wide-ranging measure which allows partners of the same sex to enter into a "civil partnership". In the landlord and tenant context it will also give the surviving partner the same rights to succeed to tenancies and to apply to a court for a transfer of a tenancy in the event of relationship breakdown. (Note that there are also many other statutory provisions relating to property that are amended by the Act - see in particular schedule 8).