Slamon v Planchon

Subject Matter

LANDLORD AND TENANT — Leasehold enfranchisement — Tenant's right to acquire reversion — Landlord legal and beneficial co-owner of family home — Premises converted into three flats — Freehold title transferred to landlord's mother holding on trust for landlord — Freehold title transferred back into landlord's sole name — Whether premises having resident landlord — Whether tenants entitled to enfranchisement — Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, s 10 (as amended by Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, ss 118, 180)

[2005] Ch 142; [2005] 2 WLR 257