{"id":5866,"date":"2018-03-07T09:26:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T09:26:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-06-17T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T14:22:30","slug":"hammersmith-and-fulham-lbc-v-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawteacher.net\/cases\/hammersmith-and-fulham-lbc-v-monk.php","title":{"rendered":"Hammersmith and Fulham LBC v Monk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hammersmith and Fulham LBC v Monk [1992] 1 A.C. 478<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The determination of joint tenancies by a single tenant.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"facts\">Facts<\/h3>\n<p>Monk and Powell held a joint tenancy over a property. Following the termination of their relationship Powell desired to end her tenancy and was given a new tenancy by the local council on the condition that her existing tenancy be determined and ended. Thus, the tenant provided the council with a notice to quit, allowing them to seek possession of the house. She subsequently sought to withdraw her notice, but the Council proceeded to possess the property anyway, issuing a notice to Monk that he ought vacate the property.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"issues\">Issues<\/h3>\n<p>Whether one tenant could end a joint tenancy without the consent of the other joint tenant.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"decision\">Decision\/Outcome<\/h3>\n<p>The Court held that the tenant\u2019s right to occupy the original property was grounds for few protections and that strong security of tenure did not stem from a joint periodic tenancy. In this case, it suffices for one of the tenants to give notice to quit, permission from both is not necessary. Further, the continuation of a joint tenancy requires all of the joint tenants to desire its continuation. Here, the Court viewed that the matter was relatively straightforward, utilising the analogy of contract law to state that should determination of a contract rest upon the consent of all signatories, it supposes that in the absence of one party\u2019s consent, the other signatories have effectively entered into an indefinite contractual obligation. Such a supposition is unreasonable and does not reflect the likely intentions of the parties at the time of contracting. The same holds in application to tenancy contracts, and so the desire for determination by one joint tenant suffices for the ending of the whole tenancy.<\/p>\n<p>Words: 293<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monk and Powell held a joint tenancy over a property. 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