LT LANDLORD AND TENANT – appointment of manager – lessees with incorporeal rights over land outside the curtilage of the building – held power to include such land in management order – Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 section 24(1). Citations: [2006] EWLands LRX – 145 – 2005 Links: Bailii Statutes: Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 … Continue reading Cawsand Ford Management Co Ltd v Stafford and others: LT 7 Nov 2006
The court had appointed a manager of the converted house under the Act. The tenants sought to set off against the sums payable under the lease, the costs of repairs. The manager asserted that whilst he owed some duty of care, it was not a full duty to repair. Held: The appointment of the manager … Continue reading Taylor v Blaquiere: CA 14 Nov 2002
The term was to expire on 25 March 1988. The landlord served a section 25(1) notice to determine the tenancy on 1 March 1989 to which the tenants responded with a notice under section 27(2) to determine the tenancy on 24 June 1988. In fact the tenants vacated the property on or immediately before 25 … Continue reading Longacre Securities Ltd v Electro Acoustic Industries Ltd: CA 1990
Unrelated Detriment was no Discrimination The tenant had left his flat and sublet it so as to allow the landlord authority an apparently unanswerable claim for possession. The authority appealed a finding that they had to take into account the fact that the tenant was disabled and make reasonable adjustments. Held: The authority’s appeal succeeded. … Continue reading London Borough of Lewisham v Malcolm: HL 25 Jun 2008
