Age of consent – yet again – assignments and subletting

Practitioners have to manage applications for consents on a daily basis. This is so whether acting for landlord or tenant. It is often difficult casework to deal with as sometimes the client has a hidden agenda. Also the overriding principle is for the landlord to act reasonable and/or within a reasonable time. On many occasions there is a fine line between what is and what is not reasonable. There will often be shades of opinion. Moreover judges as human beings will also have different personal perceptions. It is therefore difficult, if not sometimes impossible, to predict the outcome of any set of facts with any certainty. To aid the busy practitioner and to help focus advice for clients in any given case, we shall highlight cases of practical interest. Here we highlight three different cases that all relate to a consent for a subletting.