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Collective Enfranchisement: When is a flat not a ‘flat’?
In Smith v Jafton Properties the court considered whether four self-contained flats used for short-term residential serviced accommodation were ‘flats’ and ‘occupied for residential purposes’. Leigh Shapiro investigates. ‘Although the 1967 Act and the 1993 did have common themes and probably a common origin, they are independent of each other. HHJ Hand was of the …