{"id":865,"date":"2024-11-28T07:48:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T07:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1215.london\/?p=865"},"modified":"2024-11-28T07:48:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T07:48:59","slug":"howe-to-get-a-longer-tonge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/howe-to-get-a-longer-tonge\/","title":{"rendered":"Howe to get a Longer Tonge*"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=1215Law\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1215.london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Buy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" src=\"http:\/\/1215.london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Buy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/1215.london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Buy.jpg 350w, https:\/\/1215.london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Buy-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ember566\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bailii.org\/ew\/cases\/EWCA\/Civ\/2024\/1444.html\">Howe v London Borough of Brent<\/a> <strong>[2024] EWCA Civ 1444<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ember567\">Successful in a Court of Appeal Judgment today that people (well\u2026Lawyers\u2026 if they are actually people) might find interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ember568\">The Court of Appeal confirmed that a family member of a secure tenant with a right to buy their home is able to exercise a shared right to buy if &nbsp;the tenant, whose right is established, dies <em>after<\/em> the family member\u2019s entitlement to share the right has been claimed, but <em>before<\/em> the landlord has accepted the family member\u2019s right or it has been established by the County Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ember569\">*The Judgment in <em>Howe <\/em>confirms (arguably extends- hence the terrible double pun in the title) the Court&#8217;s dicta in <em>Harrow LBC v Tonge <\/em>(1993) 25 HLR 99 which found that the family member of a secure tenant could continue a Right to Buy after the secure tenant&#8217;s death if that right had been established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ember570\">A shout out to my valiant opponent Riccardo Calzavara of Cornerstone (who very eloquently did everything a Barrister could to persuade the Court otherwise) &amp; to Deputy DJ Watterson (of Garden Court North) whose judgment (on, so people tell me, her first sitting day in the County Court) &nbsp;was upheld appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howe v London Borough of Brent [2024] EWCA Civ 1444 Successful in a Court of Appeal Judgment today that people (well\u2026Lawyers\u2026 if they are actually people) might find interesting. The Court of Appeal confirmed that a family member of a secure tenant with a right to buy their home is able to exercise a shared<a href=\"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/howe-to-get-a-longer-tonge\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}