The Weekly Law Reports
[1998] 2 WLR 225
[COURT OF APPEAL]
FITZPATRICK
v.
STERLING HOUSING ASSOCIATION LTD.
1997 June 12;
July 23
July 23
Waite, Roch and Ward L.JJ.
Landlord and Tenant
— Rent restriction
— Death of tenant
— Man living with tenant in homosexual relationship
— Whether living with tenant as “his … wife or husband”
— Whether “member of the original tenant's family”
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Rent Act 1977 (c. 42), Sch. 1, paras. 2(2) (as amended by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50), s. 39(2), Sch. 4, Pt. I, para. 2), 3(1) (as amended by Housing Act 1988, s. 39(2), Sch. 4, Pt. I, para. 3)