Part of Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill - Report (and remaining stages) – in the House of Lords at 4:45 pm on 24 May 2024.
Lord Howard of Rising
Conservative
4:45,
24 May 2024
I thank the Minister. We touched on this before. The Minister said that this is compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights, but the advice given to the Government was that it was a very marginal case.
I also point out to the Minister that, if you had some ground rents coming in and you had them removed by force, you would simply fight as long as you wanted, because you would continue to get them while you were fighting in the court. I envisage that the legal complications would last for several years. There are huge sums of money involved, with £7.1 billion of assets being transferred, and people will try to protect that.
If I was the Minister, I would go back and ask my legal advisers to check what was happening. Having said that, I beg leave to withdraw the Amendment.
Amendment 16 withdrawn.
Amendment 17 not moved.
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