Pease v Carter

Subject Matter

LANDLORD AND TENANT — Assured shorthold tenancy — Notice of proceedings for possession — Landlord’s notice wrongly stating possession proceedings would not begin before date in previous year — Whether notice to be interpreted as it would be understood by reasonable recipient — Whether notice valid — Housing Act 1988 (c 50), s 8 (as amended by Housing Act 1996 (c 52), s 151, Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c 12), s 97(2)(a) and Immigration Act 2016 (c 19), s 41(4))

[2020] EWCA Civ 175; [2020] 1 WLR 1459; [2020] 4 All ER 519; [2020] HLR 21; [2020] 2 P & CR 11; [2020] L & TR 18; [2020] WLR (D) 93; The Times, 28 April 2020, CA

Commentary

Nearly Legal
You know what I mean – Errors in section 8 notices Case comment