The Weekly Law Reports
[2002] 1 WLR 1488
Court of Appeal
Lee
v
Leeds City Council
Ratcliffe and others
v
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
[2002] EWCA Civ 6
2001 Oct 25;
2002 Jan 21
2002 Jan 21
Chadwick, Tuckey LJJ and Sir Murray Stuart-Smith
Landlord and tenant
— Repairs
— Covenant implied by statute
— Local authority landlord
— Landlord's statutory obligation to keep structure and exterior of house in repair
— House having design fault resulting in excessive condensation
— Whether landlord liable to remedy fault
— Whether necessity to reinterpret repairing obligation in light of Convention
— Whether local authority under duty to ensure housing fit for human habitation
—
Defective Premises Act 1972 (c 35), s. 4
—
Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (c 70), s. 11(1)
—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s. 6, Sch. 1, Pt I, art 8
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