On 10th June a judge at Clerkenwell & Shoreditch County Court ruled that a son who had lived with his father, and cared for him in the final year of his life, was entitled to take over his father’s tenancy of a one bedroom Council flat.
Hackney argued that the son was not entitled to succeed to the tenancy because he had links to a girlfriend who had a flat elsewhere where he sometimes stayed and which he used as a postal address. But having heard evidence from a friend, and a neighbour, who had regularly visit the father’s flat over the years, the Judge ruled that the son had not lived there simply to care for his father but had made his home there, and not with his girlfriend, for at least the required 12 months up to the date of the father’s death.
The son’s solicitor Bill Parry-Davies, said “It is a great relief to our client that, after further upset when the tenancy was being contested following his father’s death, our client finally can call the flat his own”.
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