The WLR Daily case summaries
[2021] WLR(D) 639
Court of Appeal
Metropolitan Housing Trust Ltd v TM
[2021] EWCA Civ 1890
Green, Nugee, Snowden LJJ
2021 Nov 4;
Dec 20
Dec 20
Housing— Assured tenancy— Claim for possession— Tenant defending possession claim by registered social landlord on ground landlord breaching public sector equality duty— Trial judge finding landlord breaching public sector equality duty but remedying earlier failure while giving evidence at trial and accordingly granting possession order— Whether assessment of public sector equality duty while giving evidence at trial sufficing to comply with duty— Whether possible for breach of public sector equality duty to be remedied by later compliance—
Equality Act 2010 (c 15), s 149