LANDLORD AND TENANT LAW This unique collection of essays, written by leading practitioners, policy makers and academics, looks at patterns of landlord and tenant law: past, present and future. Each sector is explored—commercial, long residential, housing, and agricultural—by taking a look backwards and forwards. The chapters explore the role that legislative, judicial, and policy developments, and market forces have played, and will continue to play, in shaping the law. Two chapters are devoted to the seminal case of Street v Mountford and its contemporary significance. A comparison is also made with the position in Australia and the United States. The book provides a scholarly reflection on the principles of leasehold law that will be of interest to practitioners, academics, and students of landlord and tenant law.
Landlord and Tenant Law: Past, Present and Future
Edited by
Susan Bright
OXFORD AND PORTLAND, OREGON 2006
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Foreword The relationship of landlord and tenant is of considerable importance in social, political and economic terms. It can relate to a small inner city flat or a corner street shop, at one end of the spectrum, and to a superstore or a 1000 hectare farm at the other end. In these circumstances, it is scarcely surprising that the relationship of landlord and tenant and the law of England have had such a substantial mutual effect. The number of cases, indeed of important cases, arising out of disputes between landlords and tenants has been very substantial, over the past five centuries. The past 25 years are no exception. There has been a stream o