The Weekly Law Reports
[2022] 1 WLR 5394
King’s Bench Division
*Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Mailley
[2022] EWHC 2328 (KB)
2022 March 29, 31; April 1; June 7; Sept 14
Cotter J
Housing— Secure tenancy— Death of tenant— Defendant living in house let to her mother under secure tenancy— Local authority terminating tenancy after mother moving permanently to care home with dementia— Defendant consequently unable to succeed to tenancy on mother’s death— Whether legislation unlawfully discriminating against defendant when compared to family members of tenants who died at home— Whether defendant having relevant “status” for purposes of discrimination claim—
Housing Act 1985 (c 68), s 87
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 14