Hellings v Parker Breslin Estates (1994)

Case Summary:

Title: Hellings v Parker Breslin Estates (1994)

Summary:  Plaintiffs employ agent to let flat - tenants fail to vacate - whether letting agents in breach of duty of skill and care - Judgement for plaintiffs. Plaintiffs owned a flat  which they occupied until May 1982 when they purchased a house nearby.

Defendant letting agents, who had been instructed to find occupiers for the flat and to make arrangements enabling the plainiffs to recover possession at the end of the term granted so that it could be sold, allowing SB into possession on Dec 20 1982 giving her notice under case 11 of Schedule 15 to the Rent aCt 1977 that the owners would require possession when the tenancy agreement ended.

At the expiration of the term, SB did not give up possession and, in possession proceedings for arrears of rent, the plaintiff's soliicitors