Workshop outline
This workshop explores the nature of negative covenants in tenancy agreements, provides examples of best practice in handling breaches of such covenants and clarifies how to deal with suspected abandonment, sub-letting and assignments without consent. We also consider the role of social landlords and other agencies in antisocial behaviour and provide participants with a range of enforcement options including injunctions and possession.

Pre-course
Participants should bring with them problematic cases and examples of how their organisation has succeeded or failed to resolve them.

Workshop content

Why accurate and comprehensive documentation is necessary
Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts 1999
The need for negative covenants
Corporate consistency, strategies & decisions
How to deal with failure to occupy by the tenant, or occupation by others
Use of premises as sole or principal home
Subletting and lodgers - evidence, proof & enforcement
Clarifying expectations and quality service in anti-social behaviour
Dealing with common breaches: pets, gardens, children, damage, business use
When and how to use other agencies: their role and powers
Using injunctions, possession actions etc