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08 May 2026 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8160 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way , Landlord&tenant , Personal injury , ADR , Damages
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Civil way: 8 May 2026

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RIGHTS AND WRONGS

They said they would do it. And they did it. The first phase of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (RRA 2025) was activated by a second commencement order SI 2026/421 on 1 May 2026 (made just a fortnight earlier) with some transitional and saving provisions thrown in. Here is a drive-by survey of the order. The regulation numbers come from the order.

‘I’m selling up’ There is a new ground for possession—a sale of the dwelling—at para 3 of Sch 1 to RRA 2025. The ground will not apply to what is called a ‘legacy assured tenancy’. That is an assured tenancy entered into before 1 May 2026 which was not an assured shorthold (reg 5). When the tenancy ends, the landlord could grant a new assured periodic tenancy for which the sale ground for possession would be available. Further, there is a reletting penalty where this ground has been relied on (see ‘Civil way’, 175 NLJ

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NLJ this week: Renters’ Rights revolution begins—brace for tribunal chaos
he abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC
NLJ this week: Civil procedure gets a spring overhaul
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
NLJ this week: Why GP complaints are going nowhere
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
NLJ this week: Prenups meet a jurisdictional brick wall
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
NLJ this week: Has Rylands v Fletcher come back from the dead?
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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