Defending Possession Proceedings
4th Edition
Published in November 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
544 pages
978-0-905099-79-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-905099-79-8 (9780905099798)
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Previous edition
Jan Luba | Nic Madge | Derek McConnell
Defending Possession Proceedings
Book
01/1993
3rd Edition
Legal Action Group
€59.62
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Content
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.