Manchester City Council v Pinnock (Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government intervening) – WLR Daily

Posted August 5th, 2009 in housing, judicial review, law reports, repossession by sally

Manchester City Council v Pinnock (Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government intervening [2009] EWCA Civ 852; [2009] WLR (D) 280

“In a claim by a public landlord for a possession order against its demoted tenant, the jurisdiction of the county court was limited to considering whether the procedure for bringing the possession claim had been complied with and to making or declining to make the possession order; it had no power to review the decision of the review panel of the public landlord as to whether the decision was proportionate or compatible with the tenant’s human rights.”

WLR Daily, 3rd August 2009

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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