Providing detailed coverage of the law and practice governing security of tenure for all public- and private-sector residential tenants, as well as related possession proceedings, this fourth edition has been extensively revised in the light of the Housing Act 1996 and other developments in housing statute and case-law. The book includes precedents, check-lists, and extracts from relevant legislation.
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Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 148 mm
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978-0-905099-79-8 (9780905099798)
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Part 1 Public-sector occupiers: the secure occupier; security threatened; grounds for possession against secure occupiers; preparing the defence; special cases; housing associations; housing action trusts; introductory tenancies. Part 2 Private-sector tenants - tenancies created on or after 15th January 1989: assured shorthold tenancies; assured tenancies; reasonableness. Part 3 Private-sector tenants - tenancies created before 15th January 1989: the Rent Acts; termination of contractual tenancies; statutory tenants ceasing to reside; grounds for possession against Rent Act-protected tenants; restricted contracts; unprotected tenants and licensees; premises occupied by employees; death; rental purchase agreements; shared ownership. Part 4 Possession procedure: procedure in possession proceedings; expedited possession proceedings against tenants; legal aid; possession proceedings against trespassers and other unlawful occupiers; costs; mesne profits and damages for trespass; possession orders; after the possession order; domestic relationship breakdown; homelessness; housing benefit. Part 5 Mortgagors: mortgages; lender's right to possession; courts' powers to deny possession to lender; preventing the lender from obtaining possession; procedure and tactics; tenants of borrowers; domestic relationship breakdown; rights of equitable owners; undue influence; mortgage borrowers and homelessness; possession claims by unsecured creditors; sale of the security. Part 6 Precedents.
