Relief is needed for the law as to relief.
An everyday encounter for any lawyer practising in the field of landlord and tenant is a claim for the forfeiture of a lease. In many such cases a key issue arising is: should relief against forfeiture be granted and if so on what terms? Once one gets to court there is plenty of scope for argument over these points. This flexibility is good news for the lawyer but probably inevitable because of the variety of circumstances prompting a forfeiture (ranging from non payment of £5 ground rent to using the premises as a brothel). But can one get to court, and if so which court? One would think that after hundreds of years there should be a simple and fair answer to this. There is neither.
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