The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division)
[1978] QB 823
[COURT OF APPEAL]
HANSON v. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS FOR ENGLAND AND ANOTHER
REGINA
v.
LONDON RENT ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE
Ex parte
HANSON
1976 Oct. 29;
Nov. 1
Nov. 1
Lord Denning M.R. and Roskill and Lawton L.JJ.
Landlord and Tenant
— Rent restriction
— Rent assessment
— Fair rent assessed by rent officer
— Objection by tenant
— Reference to rent assessment committee
— Purported withdrawal of objection by tenant
— Whether right to withdraw
— Whether hearing with knowledge of tenant's belief that withdrawal effective contrary to natural justice
—
Rent Act 1968 (c. 23), Sch. 6, paras. 6 (1), 9
Natural Justice
— Opportunity to meet charge
— Right to be heard
— Rent assessment committee
— Tenant's objection to fair rent referred to committee
— Purported withdrawal of objection by tenant
— Committee increasing rent without giving tenant opportunity to be heard
— Whether acting unfairly