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Mexfield Housing Co-operative Ltd v Berrisford

Subject Matter

LANDLORD AND TENANT — Lease — Validity — Occupancy agreement purporting to grant lease from month to month for weekly rent — Agreement providing for determination only in specified limited circumstances — Whether lease invalid as being for uncertain term — Whether taking effect as monthly tenancy — Whether converted into 90-year lease by statutory provision — Law of Property Act 1925, s 149(6) (as amended by Civil Partnership Act 2004, s 81, Sch 8, para 1(3))

[2011] Ch 244; [2012] 1 AC 955; [2011] 2 WLR 423; [2011] 3 WLR 1091; [2011] PTSR 236; [2012] PTSR 69

LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — Rule that leasehold term cannot be uncertain — Whether desirable for Parliament to re-examine rule

[2011] Ch 244; [2011] 2 WLR 423; [2011] PTSR 236

Appellate History

Mexfield Housing Co-operative Ltd v Berrisford [2010] 1 P & CR D8

Decision of Peter Smith J affirmed

Mexfield Housing Co-operative Ltd v Berrisford [2010] EWCA Civ 811; [2011] Ch 244; [2011] 2 WLR 423; [2011] PTSR 236; [2011] 2 All ER 273; [2010] L & TR 25; [2010] WLR (D) 192, CA

Mexfield Housing Co-operative Ltd v Berrisford [2010] EWCA Civ 811; [2011] Ch 244; [2011] 2 WLR 423; [2011] PTSR 236; [2011] 2 All ER 273; [2010] L & TR 25; [2010] WLR (D) 192, CA

Decision of the Court of Appeal reversed

Mexfield Housing Co-operative Ltd v Berrisford [2011] UKSC 52; [2012] 1 AC 955; [2011] 3 WLR 1091; [2012] PTSR 69; [2012] 1 All ER 1393; [2012] HLR 15; [2011] 3 EGLR 115; [2012] L & TR 7; [2011] WLR (D) 322; [2010] 1 P & CR D8; Case details, SC(E)

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