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08 July 2016 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7706 / Categories: Features , Civil way
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Civil way: 8 July 2016

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  • Landlords bless Supreme Court.
  • Sherlock Holmes wrong on fact finding.
  • New service charge code.
  • Legal aid goes soft on MIAMs.
  • London more expensive.
  • Direct access: ecstasy and agony.

PHEW!

Private landlords have escaped. Where it is a public authority seeking possession of premises, the occupier can defend on the ground of proportionality (Manchester City Council v Pinnock [2010] UKSC 45, [2011] 1 All ER 285). The Supreme Court scotched the idea that the same defence could be run with a private tenancy on 15 June 2016 in McDonald v McDonald and others [2016] UKSC 28, [2016] All ER (D) 81 (Jun) in which even the Residential Landlords Association poked in its nose as intervener in writing. Private landlords do deserve a break what with retaliatory eviction, the deposit protection minefield, a prescribed notice under s 21 of the Housing Act 1988 and more traps than a mice farm on April Fool’s Day to contend with (see Civil Way 165 NLJ 7671, p 17, 165

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