The Weekly Law Reports
[2004] 3 WLR 113
House of Lords
Ghaidan
v
Godin-Mendoza
[2004] UKHL 30
2004 April 20,
21;
June 21
June 21
Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Steyn, Lord Millett, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry and Baroness Hale of Richmond
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), s. 3, Sch. 1, Pt I, art 14