The court considered the purpose of excluding from protection properties with a resident landlord. Scarman LJ: ‘ . . the mischief at which the section was aimed was the mischief of that sort of social embarrassment arising out of close proximity – close proximity which the landlord had accepted in the belief that he could bring it to an end at any time allowed by the contract of tenancy.’ A good test for whether they were separate was whether there were two front doors.
Judges:
Scarman LJ
Citations:
(1976) 2 HLR 118
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Housing
Updated: 29 May 2022; Ref: scu.245817