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Compensation for Business Tenants: Mischief and Malady

Haley, Michael

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Abstract

This article focuses upon the provisions and underlying policy of the Landlord and Tenant Acts of 1927 and 1954. It surveys the mischief that each Act was designed to address and, from the perspective of compensation for business tenants, examines critically the legislative response. It demonstrates that the safeguards afforded by the 1927 Act were poorly conceived, ill-constructed and ineffectual. Although the 1954 Act was intended to instil simplicity, certainty and fairness, it fails on all counts. The law remains highly technical, unduly complex, arbitrary in operation and in need of major overhaul.

Citation

Haley, M. (2020). Compensation for Business Tenants: Mischief and Malady. Cambridge Law Journal, 79(3), 490-526. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008197320000586

Acceptance Date Jul 6, 2020
Online Publication Date Dec 7, 2020
Publication Date Nov 1, 2020
Journal Cambridge Law Journal
Print ISSN 0008-1973
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Volume 79
Issue 3
Pages 490-526
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008197320000586
Keywords business
tenants
compensation
regulation
reforms
goodwill
disturbance
Publisher URL https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-law-journal/article/compensation-for-business-tenants-mischief-and-malady/7FD1B95A68B3AB5F1DE5FEAE0183B756