Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council v Hickin [2012] UKSC39

Mr and Mrs Hickin had rented a property for 45 years as a couple. The couple had been separated for years but the wife continued to live at the property. When Mrs Hickin died her adult daughter was left alone in the property which she shared with her daughter. The council served a notice to quit on Mr Hickin as he was the surviving joint tenant. The daughter claimed that she was the surviving tenant from her mother.

It was held that