Although the case specifically affects local authorities and social housing organisations, it will be watched with interest by private landlords, who fear it can only be a matter of time before private tenants start claiming ‘human rights’.
Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights says that people have the right to ‘respect for private and family life’.
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NetRent Comment
Perhaps the European Court of Human Rights would care to comment on the pictures we have published on our Facebook page under the title The Damage That Some Tenants Do. We suspect that the landlords and agents who supplied these photos and many more like them might consider that their Human Rights have been infringed.
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