The statutory hypothesis was that the reasonable landlord, when contracting with the tenant for the let of a dwelling house, undertook to put the property in repair and would do so by removing ‘readily remediable defects’ or ‘reparable and temporary defects’. Thus the existence of such defects in the property did not affect its value for rating purposes.
Judges:
Wilmer LJ, Harman LJ
Citations:
[1960] 1 QB 217
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Newbigin (Valuation Officer) v SJ and J Monk (A Firm) SC 1-Mar-2017
The court was asked: ‘Does a commercial building which is in the course of redevelopment have to be valued for the purposes of rating as if it were still a useable office? ‘
Held: Appeal from decision of CA granted. On the facts found by the . .
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Rating
Updated: 21 July 2022; Ref: scu.640536
