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Landlord & tenant

09 January 2015
Issue: 7635 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Sims v Dacorum Borough Council and another [2014] UKSC 63, [2014] All ER (D) 126 (Nov)

The Supreme Court dismissed the appellant’s appeal against a judgment of the Court of Appeal, Civil Division, which had upheld an order for possession made against the appellant in circumstances where the appellant’s wife, as joint tenant of a secure weekly tenancy, had unilaterally terminated the tenancy. The court held that the appellant’s arguments based on Art 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Art 1 of the First Protocol to the Convention failed.

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