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LANDLORD AND TENANT

31 May 2007
Issue: 7275 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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Birmingham City Council v Walker [2007] UKHL 22, [2007] All ER (D) 237 (May)

A joint tenant of council property who became, by survivorship, the sole tenant, before becoming a secure tenant when such tenancies were created in 1980, is not herself “a successor” within the meaning of s 88(1) of the Housing Act 1985 to prevent further succession under that Act. The events to which s 88(1) refers are events in relation to tenancies which have become secure tenancies and not to events which happened earlier.

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