The Law Reports (Chancery Division)
[2003] Ch 380
Court of Appeal
Ghaidan
v
Godin-Mendoza
[2002] EWCA Civ 1533
2002 Oct 16;
Nov 5
Nov 5
Kennedy, Buxton and Keene LJJ
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 becoming statutory tenant or only entitled to assured tenancy by succession
— No reasonable justification for discrimination against same-sex relationships
— Whether legislation to be read and given effect in way compatible with Convention rights
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Rent Act 1977 (c 42) (as amended by Housing Act 1980 (c 51), s. 76(1) and Housing Act 1988 (c 50), s. 39(2), Sch. 4, paras 2, 3), Sch. 1, paras 2(2), 3(1)
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch. 1, Pt I, art 14