{"id":8754,"date":"2014-07-07T10:55:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T09:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=8754"},"modified":"2014-07-08T10:22:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T09:22:13","slug":"supreme-court-gives-preliminary-ruling-on-monk-evictions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=8754","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court gives Preliminary Ruling on Monk Evictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Ref. <em>Sims v Dacorum Borough Council [2014]<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Supreme Court is reputedly set to reject a challenge to the rule in\u00c2\u00a0<em>Monk<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0on notices to quit given by joint periodic tenants. The case referenced above saw a seven-judge panel hear a challenge to the 1992 ruling of <em>Hammersmith &amp; Fulham LBC v Monk. <\/em><em>The rule, long accepted in the industry, states that <\/em>&#8211; absent a term of the tenancy to the contrary &#8211; a notice to quit given by one of a number of joint periodic tenants is effective to terminate the tenancy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">During <em>Sims,<\/em> the question was raised as to whether this rule was still compatible with Article 8 and Article 1 of the First Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights which state respectively:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Article 1<\/strong> &#8211; Every natural or legal person is entitled to the peaceful enjoyment of his possessions. No one shall be deprived of his possessions except in the public interest and subject to the conditions provided for by law and by the general principles of international law.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> The preceding provisions shall not, however, in any way impair the right of a State to enforce such laws as it deems necessary to control the use of property in accordance with the general interest or to secure the payment of taxes or other contributions or penalties.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Article 8<\/strong> &#8211; Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t compatible, should the rule in <em>Monk <\/em>be reversed, so that a joint tenant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s notice to quit is not effective to determine the tenancy?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Michael Sims (the appellant) and his wife were joint periodic secure tenants of a three-bedroom house owned by Dacorum. When they separated, Mrs Sims left the property and gave notice to quit to the council which \u00e2\u20ac\u201c following the\u00c2\u00a0<em>Monk<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0ruling \u00e2\u20ac\u201c had the effect of terminating the tenancy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dacorum obtained a possession order against Mr Sims, who was still in occupation. He appealed, but lost at both Watford County Court and the Court of Appeal. Now it appears that he has lost again in the Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to Cornerstone Barristers, one of whose employees appeared for Dacorum, Lord Neuberger announced on the third day of the Supreme Court hearing that the judges were minded to grant Mr Sims permission to appeal but then to dismiss the appeal itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The reasons for the Supreme Court\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision are to be given at a later date, but for the moment the ruling in <em>Monk <\/em>seems to be safe.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/\">www.PropertySurveying.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SRJ \/ LCB \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a003.07.14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ref. Sims v Dacorum Borough Council [2014] The Supreme Court is reputedly set to reject a challenge to the rule in\u00c2\u00a0Monk\u00c2\u00a0on notices to quit given by joint periodic tenants. The case referenced above saw a seven-judge panel hear a challenge to the 1992 ruling of Hammersmith &amp; Fulham LBC v Monk. The rule, long accepted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=8754\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Supreme Court gives Preliminary Ruling on Monk Evictions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-8754","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Supreme Court gives Preliminary Ruling on Monk Evictions - Property Surveying NEWSLETTER<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=8754\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Supreme Court gives Preliminary Ruling on Monk Evictions - Property Surveying NEWSLETTER\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ref. 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