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Mikeover Ltd v Brady

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211:, N1, and then let it out to Mr Brady and Miss Guile. They each signed separate but identical 'licence' agreements allowing them to share for six months for £86.66 a month. After the sixth months expired they were allowed to remain on the same terms. Miss Guile moved out early 1986, telling Mr Ferster, the Mikeover Ltd director, in April 1986. Mr Brady offered to continue to pay £173.32 in rent. Mr Ferster replied 'I can't accept it. I'll hold you responsible for your share only.' But Mr Brady still fell into arrears for his half, and Mikeover Ltd tried to remove him in early 1987. He claimed he had a lease of the flat to get 39: 249:"The three licences were in substance and reality just what they purported to be. The right, specifically given under each of termination on 28 days' notice by either side, and the provision whereby each was responsible only for a specific sum which was in fact one third of the total required by the landlord, are wholly inconsistent with a joint tenancy." 230:
obligations were not joint. There was no sham. It was established that there must be the four unities present, of possession, interest, title and time, and there was no unity of interest because there was only a several obligation for payment of the rent. That requires the existence of 'joint rights and joint obligations'.
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held they had only licences. There was exclusive possession in common with the other occupier, but there was no unity of interest, and no joint tenancy, and the limitation on payments to their own shares was pivotal. This meant the arrangements were incapable of creating a joint tenancy because the
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Held: These two agreements...were incapable in law of creating a joint tenancy, because the monetary obligations of the two parties were not joint obligations and there was accordingly no complete unity of interest. It follows that there was no joint tenancy. Since inter se Miss Guile and the
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defendant had no power to exclude each other from occupation of any part of the premises, it also follows that their respective several rights can never have been greater than those of licensees during the period of their joint occupation
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Academic critque published by journal: it is not clear why there is a requirement for a genuine (factual) joint tenancy , when there is no such requirement for having a freehold together.
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The entire inconsistency with a joint tenancy of a provision rendering each licensee responsible only for one third of the total required by the landlord was, as we read
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An eviction notice (which will have been posted or process-served per rules)
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Obiter dictum of Lord Templeman and Obiter dictum of Lord Jauncey in
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with whose judgment Fox LJ and Sir Denys Buckley agreed, said:
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Appellant also lost in the court below, first instance
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Mikeover v Brady

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HTML Version of Judgment
Slade LJ
English land law
leases
licence
Rent Act 1977
London
Rent Act
Slade LJ
Parker LJ
Antoniades v Villiers
Street v Mountford
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Land Registration Act 2002
Protection from Eviction Act 1977
Family Law Act 1996
Law of Property Act 1925
Errington v Errington
Ashburn Anstalt v Arnold
Street v Mountford
Mikeover v Brady
Aslan v Murphy
Duke v Wynne

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