A tenant of a licensee is not a tenant of the licensor.
The Borough Council granted a licence of a block of flats to a charitable Housing Trust, for the Trust to provide temporary accommodation for homeless people. The Trust then granted licences allowing individuals to occupy the flats. One of the occupants later argued that although the Trust had purported to grant licences, his agreement with the trust resulted in a tenancy as he had exclusive possession. It is the legal consequences of the agreement that is determinative, rather than the label the parties attach to it (as shown by Street v Mountford [1985]).
The County Court held
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