Landlord and Tenant Law Past, Present and Future

Author: Susan Bright
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781841135939
Published In: November 2006
Format: Hardback , 326 pages
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This unique collection of essays, written by the 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.

Contents:: 1 Landlord and tenant law : mapping the recent past by Derek Wood; 2 Street v Mountford revisited by Susan Bright; 3 Judicial directions in landlord and tenant law : different policies for different sectors by Sarah Blandy and Caroline Hunter; 4 Commercial leases past and present : the contribution of the law commission by Stuart Bridge; 5 Commercial leases : future directions by Sandi Murdoch; 6 Agricultural tenancies : past and present by Andrew Densham; 7 Agricultural tenancies : future directions by Michael Cardwell; 8 Long residential leases : past and present by Martin Davey; 9 Long residential leases : future directions by David Clarke; 10 Housing law : past and present by Andrew Arden and Martin Partington; 11 Housing law : the future by Andrew Arden and Martin Partington ; 12 Recent developments in Australian residential tenancies laws by Marcia Neave; 13 Impoverished tenants in 20th century America by Richard H. Chused

Susan Bright is Professor of Land Law, and McGregor Fellow at New College, Oxford.

The overall standard of authorship and scholarship is high…Future directions in the law are given good coverage and are an integral part of the book, which makes this book recommended reading for policy makers and would-be legislators.
Stanley Jacobs
Solicitors Journal Vol 151, No 3
Jan 2007

…there is much here from which the agricultural practitioner can benefit…What it does, very successfully, is to provide an intellectual background to the purpose of landlord and tenant law.
Geoff Whittaker
The Bulletin of the Agricultural Law Association Issue 47
Winter 06/07

…a useful addition to housing law libraries for all who are interested in this area of law.
Tessa Shepperson
Landlord-Law
October 2006

… thorough and imaginative…a collection that should be obligatory reading for anyone with a serious interest in the social and economic functions of the law of landlord and tenant…
Chris Rodgers
The Law Quarterly Review
October 2007- volume 123