Southwark LBC v Mills and others
Southwark LBC v Mills and others
- 1998
- Estates Gazette [1998] 45 EG 151-160(10) .
CA 29 July 1998. S owns a block of flats with inadequate soundproofing. The local arbitration tribunal considered the covenant for quiet enjoyment and ordered S to carry out soundproofing works. This decision was upheld by the court. S appealed. "Held" There was not an abstract standard of quietness to which every tenant with a covenant of quiet enjoyment was entitled irrespective of the circumstances in which he executed the lease and the location of the property. Appeal allowed.
BAXTER V CAMDEN LBC
CHARTERED TRUST PLC V DAVIES
DUKE OF WESTMINSTER V GUILD
HILTON V JAMES SMITH AND SONS (NORWOOD) LTD
INVESTORS COMPENSATION SCHEME LTD V WEST BROMWICH BUILDING SOCIETY
LANDLORD AND TENANT
LANDLORDS OBLIGATIONS
NUISANCE
QUICK V TAFF ELY BC
QUIET ENJOYMENT
SAMPSON V HODSON-PRESSINGER
SANDERSON V BERWICK-ON-TWEED
SOUNDPROOFING
CA 29 July 1998. S owns a block of flats with inadequate soundproofing. The local arbitration tribunal considered the covenant for quiet enjoyment and ordered S to carry out soundproofing works. This decision was upheld by the court. S appealed. "Held" There was not an abstract standard of quietness to which every tenant with a covenant of quiet enjoyment was entitled irrespective of the circumstances in which he executed the lease and the location of the property. Appeal allowed.
BAXTER V CAMDEN LBC
CHARTERED TRUST PLC V DAVIES
DUKE OF WESTMINSTER V GUILD
HILTON V JAMES SMITH AND SONS (NORWOOD) LTD
INVESTORS COMPENSATION SCHEME LTD V WEST BROMWICH BUILDING SOCIETY
LANDLORD AND TENANT
LANDLORDS OBLIGATIONS
NUISANCE
QUICK V TAFF ELY BC
QUIET ENJOYMENT
SAMPSON V HODSON-PRESSINGER
SANDERSON V BERWICK-ON-TWEED
SOUNDPROOFING