Westminster Borough Council v Basson: CA 1990

The council sought possession of the premises. The defendant had been an unlawful occupier. He said that in the course of the proceedings, the Council had made reference to a tenancy and to the payment of rent and had issued a rent book.
Held: The acts during possession proceedings were not inconsistent with the council’s assertions, and no tenancy had been created, only a licence.

Citations:

(1990) 23 HLR 225

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedLondon Borough of Lambeth and Hyde Southbank Ltd v O’Kane, Helena Housing Ltd CA 28-Jul-2005
In each case the authority had obtained an order for possession of the tenanted properties, but the court had suspended the possession orders. The tenants had therefore now become ‘tolerated trespassers’. They now claimed that they had again become . .
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Housing

Updated: 14 May 2022; Ref: scu.231654