The tenant was mentally disabled. He lived in the house with his adult children. The landlord served a notice to quit at the premises by giving it to a daughter. She burned it and did not inform her father.
Held: The service was effective. It was the daughter’s duty to pass it to the father. A servant of the tenant on the premises is an implied agent of the tenant, unless there was evidence to the contrary.
Hatherley LC
(1872) LR 5 HL 561
England and Wales
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Cited – Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v Haywood SC 25-Apr-2018
Notice of dismissal begins when received by worker
The court was asked: ‘If an employee is dismissed on written notice posted to his home address, when does the notice period begin to run? Is it when the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post? Or when it was in fact . .
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Updated: 19 July 2021; Ref: scu.245895