This page contains material on: Business tenancies to residential tenancies - secure? Exemption - family housed under Children Act Misrepresentation inducing a tenancy Only or principal home Notice to quit served by one joint tenant Reasonableness Succession Suitable...

This pages contains material dealing with Access by landlord to carry out works Mixed use premises Obtaining possession by misrepresentation Statutory tenancy - requirement of occupation Succession Suitable alternative accommodation Transition to assured tenancy...

This page contains details of some more recent material dealing with s21 notices: Gas safety certificates - Trecarrell House Section 21 notice can't be served by head landlord during mesne tenancy Starter tenancy - break clause - 6-month rule Tenancy Fees Act -...

This pages deals with three cases on the review of decisions not to continue the tenancy and service of the appropriate notice - s128 and s129 of the Housing Act 1996. The first with the time for the review and the second with whether or not it is possible to have a...

There are five pages in this section, dealing with some cases on liability, damages and costs - see contents on the left. Pre-action protocol Pre-action Protocol for Housing Conditions Cases Housing disrepair claims are governed by a specific Pre-Action Protocol,...

This page contains information on the following matters. Section 8 notices - address - agents Section 8 notices - reasonable recipient test Section 8 notices - dispensing with requirement of notice Acceptance of rent after an order for possession Meaning of "dwelling"...

One more chance No new tenancy Fareham Borough Council v Miller [2013] EWCA Civ 159 Summary L had terminated T-s non-secure tenancy by service of a notice to quit following anti-social behaviour by him and others occupying his property. Although L had given T one more...

Damages under s27 of the 1988 Act Eviction whilst tenant in prison Kalas v Farmer [2010] EWCA Civ 108 Summary T was entitled to damages for unlawful eviction when L had sold the property to a third party with vacant possession while T was incarcerated in prison. Facts...

Receiver not entitled to possession against protected tenants B v N [2009] EWHC 2884 (Admin) Summary A receiver appointed under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 could only obtain possession against assured shorthold tenants by following the procedure set down by the...

Assured tenancy? Houseboats not protected Mew v Tristmire Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 912 Summary Houseboats resting on wooden platforms had not become annexed to land. The occupiers of the houseboats were not therefore assured tenants for the purposes of the Housing Act...