Member

This brings me back to memories of long ago, when I was a young barrister—it was 60 years ago, I fear I have to acknowledge—when I was doing masses of rent cases. In those days, there was a separate body that assessed rent, called the rent tribunal. The trouble was that that body was assessing rents for protected tenants quite out of context, which was the market rent. That had the disastrous effect of giving the landlord quite insufficient money to look after the rented property.