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
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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.