Luganda v Service Hotels Ltd

Subject Matter

LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent restriction — Furnished letting — Licensee occupying furnished bedsitting room on weekly contract — Premises described as “hotel” consisting of rooms separately occupied — Room and other services included in weekly payments — Occupier asked to pay higher rent — Reference to furnished rent tribunal followed by 48 hours' notice and exclusion of occupier from room by changing key to door — Whether room “part of a house” — Whether occupier having room has “right to occupy as a residence” — Whether in “exclusive occupation” — Whether protected by Rent Acts — Whether interim injunction should go to restore access and occupation in accordance with contract — Rent Act, 1965, s 30 (1) (5) — Rent Act, 1968, ss 70 (1) (2), 77 (1) (2), 84 (1)

[1969] 2 Ch 209; [1969] 2 WLR 1056