Cases - Jervis v Harris

Record details

Name
Jervis v Harris
Date
[1996]; [1996]; [1996]
Citation
Ch 195; 1 All ER 303; 10 EG 159, CA
Legislation
Keywords
Dilapidations - covenant to repair
Summary

The case settled previous uncertainty as to whether a landlord could recover the cost of repairing property the tenant had failed, after notice, to repair.

Where a landlord is entitled to serve a schedule of wants of repair on the tenant and enter the property and carry out the works in default of the tenant doing so, the debt that is then claimed in respect of the cost of the works undertaken by the landlord does not have to be pursued in a manner that complies with the Leasehold Property (Repairs) Act 1938.