Wylie on Irish Landlord and Tenant Law

(Hardback, 4th edition)

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This fourth edition comprehensively deals with all aspects of landlord and tenant law, both commercial and residential. It provides essential guidance for all practitioners who advise on this area of law. The book covers everything from the basics (such as explaining the nature of the relationship between landlord and tenant) to more complex matters such as when disputes arise, and the controversial subjects of rent reviews and guarantees. In this new edition the following is covered in detail for the first time: LEGISLATION Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015 Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 Landlord and Tenant (Ground Rents) (Amendment) Act 2019 Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2017 COURT PROCEDURE Circuit Court Rules (Jurisdiction) 2017 District Court (Residential Tenancies) Rules 2018 District Court (Enforcement of Orders) Rules 2020 The fourth edition also analyses recent cases on many aspects of the law, including agreements for leases, notices to quit, application of European Convention on Human Rights, operation of Residential Tenancies Acts, forfeiture, repairing obligations, construction of leases, set-off against rent, new tenancy rights, Keep Open clauses, user covenants and restraint of trade, role and jurisdiction of experts, tenant insolvency and examinership, turnover rents, surrender by operation of law, ejectment proceedings, renunciations, quiet enjoyment and derogation from grant, Circuit Court jurisdiction, acquisition of the freehold and withholding consent to assignment. Wylie on Irish Landlord and Tenant Law has long been recognised as the definitive work on this area of law. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Irish Property Law online service.

Author Bio

Professor John Wylie is a consultant to A&L Goodbody, attached primarily to the Commercial Property Department. He has an LLB and LLD from Queen's University and an LLM from Harvard University. He was Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard Law School and held a Fulbright Scholarship to the USA during 1966-67. After various teaching posts at Belfast and Cardiff, Prof Wylie held a chair of law at Cardiff from 1979 to 2009, and he has been an Emeritus Professor since then. He has acted as a consultant for many years to the Law Societies in both parts of Ireland. He was also appointed leader of the Department of Justice and Law Reform Commission Joint Project on the reform of land and conveyancing law, which resulted in the enactment of the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009. He has led other reform projects for the Law Reform Commission and Northern Ireland Law Commission. He is the leading authority on Irish property law. He is the author of several leading books, including Wylie on Irish Land Law, Irish Landlord and Tenant Acts: Annotations, Commentary and Precedents, and The Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Acts: Annotations and Commentary, and he is co-author of The Law and Taxation of Trusts and Irish Conveyancing Law. All of these titles are published by Bloomsbury Professional.