Southwark LBC v Mills – Some of the tenants of a block of 19 flats (which was built in 1919) complained that they could hear their neighbours in the ordinary instances of domestic life and that the council were in breach of the covenant of the tenant’s right to quiet enjoyment of their premises. The tenants complained to an arbitration tribunal, asking that the council should be required to soundproof the flats, so that the sounds of ordinary domestic life in neighbouring flats were reduced.
The tribunal found that the council was in breach of the covenant, and ordered them to carry out effective soundproofing of the flats.
The council’s appeal to the High Court was
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