Reporting on three court cases where landlords were successfully prosecuted by their local authority.
Tag Archive: case law
Case law digest by Destin Solutions
I have recently learned of a new case law service, called the Case Law Digest. It is provided by Destin Solutions and authored by the well known and respected housing expert Jan Luba QC, so you can be sure that it is accurate. Destin specialise in providing services to Local Authorities, and the service is…
Can landlords be liable to neighbours for tenants from Hell?
The topic of this blog post is similar in many ways to the post I did on Monday about nightmare co-tenants (which has attracted some great comments by the way). The neighbours from hell What do you do if you find that the rented property next door to yours suddenly has the tenants from Hell…
What is the common law?
Law is a funny old thing and surprisingly vague and imprecise a lot of the time. I often get people emailing me with a problem and saying “What is the law which covers that?”. The answer to which is often “There isn’t one”. Not if you mean Act of Parliament law. Non lawyers often seem…
The Free Legal Web – putting the law online
The law on the web For a long time Nick Holmes together with quite a large number of people from the legal profession have been developing an online source of free legal information, termed the Free Legal Web. Excitingly they have now launched a new pilot housing law site. The housing law project This draws…
Another room, another tenancy
A recent case reported in Legal Action Magazine serves to remind us that tenants who rent a room in a shared house and change rooms, are also starting a completely new tenancy. Pilakoutas v. Schofield, Sheffield County Court, 22 May 2009 Here Professor Pitakoutas was a landlord by purchase of a house in multiple occupation. …
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Landlord wins compensation claim against surveyor
I was interested to see in the Observer on Sunday, a report about Emmett Scullion, a buy-to-let landlord, who has won £72,000 compensation from a surveyor who overestimated the rental income the landlord’s property would generate. However although this is a worrying decision for surveyors, it doesn’t mean that landlords can now go out and…