The Weekly Law Reports
[2024] 1 WLR 1837
Court of Appeal
*Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Mailley
[2023] EWCA Civ 1246
2023 Oct 11; 27
Baker, Simler, Elisabeth Laing LJJ
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— Whether defendant having relevant “status” for purposes of discrimination claim—
Housing Act 1985 (c 68), ss 81, 87, 91
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 14