Private Landlords cannot be held responsible for preventing the anti-social behaviour of their tenants, the High Court in Belfast has ruled.
The ruling by Mr Justice Girvan last week follows a judicial review sought by the National Landlord’s Association(NLA) of Northern Ireland. Girvan overturned a law introduced by the Government’s Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) in 2003, which placed responsibility on landlords for the behaviour of their tenants and guests and reqeuired them to prevent anti-social behaviour. Landlords had feared that following successful implementation of the measure in Northern Ireland it would be extended to the rest of the UK. David Salusbury, chairman of the NLA, says dealing with anti-socia...
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