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035 _a(Sirsi) u19549
041 _aeng
245 _aScott-James v Chehab and others
260 _c1988
350 _a0
490 _aEstates Gazette
_v(8841) 15 October 1988, 75-80(3)
520 _aCA 25 February 1988. An appeal by Chehab, leasehold owners of property which included a basement flat against the decision in favour of the occupier, Scott-James. Previously, the recorder in the county court had made an order for possession against the occupier, suspended during prompt payment of rent and a monthly sum in respect of arrears. The county court judge had set aside a warrant of possession executed by bailiffs and as a result of which the occupier had been evicted. The possession order as drafted was faulty and had to be amended under the slip rule in CCR, Ord 15, r5. If the slip rule amendment operated retroactively, the occupier had been in breach of the condition in the possession order, but if it did not so operate, the warrant was premature, as the judge held. CA held that the slip rule was retroactive in its effect, that the condition had been breached and that the judge was therefore wrong in deciding that the warrant was premature. In allowing the appeal a number
690 _aLANDLORD AND TENANT-CASE LAW-RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES
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948 _c04/03/1997
999 _c13063
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