Circumstances of tenants are relevant to possession orders

Kay and others v United Kingdom [2010] ECHR 1322, TLR 18 October

The nine applicants were lessees of housing units owned by Lambeth London Borough Council, which had been provided to them by a charitable housing trust under a special scheme for the homeless, whose leases were terminated in 1999. They complained that as tenants they had been dispossessed of their homes without any possibility of having the proportionality of the measure determined by an independent tribunal and, given their personal circumstances, there had been a violation of art 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, protecting the right to respect for private life.