Unique Pub Properties Ltd v Broad Green Tavern Ltd and another

Introduction1. The claimant Unique Pub Properties Ltd (“Unique”) owns the reversion on a lease (“the Lease”) of a public house in Croydon called The Broad Green Tavern (“the Property”).  The Lease contains a beer tie.  It also reserves to the lessor the right to install certain equipment relating to the dispensing of beer.  Unique wishes to install an item of monitoring equipment on the beer lines purportedly in exercise of that right; but the first Defendant, Broad Green Tavern Ltd (“BGTL”) has refused to give entry to Unique to the Property to do so.  The second Defendant, Daniel Joseph Dempsey (“Mr Dempsey”) is the owner and controller of BGTL and the licensee of the Property.

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council v Hickin

Secure tenancy – Housing Act 1985 – Succession – Married couple holding secure tenancy of property from respondent council as joint tenants – Husband leaving but wife and appellant daughter continuing to live in property until death of wife – Whether appellant entitled to succeed to secure tenancy – Whether husband continuing to hold tenancy by survivorship – Whether respondents entitled to possession – Appeal dismissed