Penn v Dunn

Subject Matter

LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent restriction — Possession application — Matrimonial home — Statutory tenant's departure from house — Continued occupation by wife — Husband and wife sued for possession — Neither present in court — Possession order against husband — Order unexecuted — Whether wife's right to apply for suspension of order — Whether right in statutory tenant alone — Whether wife's right of occupation through husband — Rent Act, 1968, s 11 — Matrimonial Homes Act, 1967, s 1 (1)

[1970] 2 QB 686; [1970] 3 WLR 321