Landlord and Tenant Law: Past, Present and Future

Description

This unique collection of essays, written by 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.

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 * ...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 * ...a useful addition to housing law libraries for all who are interested in this area of law. -- Tessa Shepperson * Landlord-Law * ... 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 - volume 123 *