but campaigners worry it is open to exploitation. so, currently, the way the law works is that a tenant can only take action against their immediate landlord. and what that does is it creates a real blueprint for property owners to put a sham company on the tenancy agreement, to simply crowd as many tenants in as possible, ignore fire safety features. and it is a question of when, not if there will be a number of people dying in one of these death trap properties. this has created a big legal question. who is a landlord? is it the person someone signs their contract with? or is it the property s owner? the supreme court is about to make a decision on a case which could have a big impact on who people can take legal action against. those representing landlords in the court have concerns, too. of course, landlords should be responsible for who they let to, but there are simply things they can t control. if someone has taken a property and lied to them, what would you expect them to do? i
open to exploitation. so currently the way the law works is that a tenant can only take action against their immediate landlord. and what that does is it creates a real blueprint for property owners to put a sham company on the tenancy agreement, to simply cram with many tenants in as possible, ignore fire safety features. and it s a question of when, not if there will be a number of people dying in one of these death trap properties. this has created a big legal question. who is a landlord? is it the person someone signs their contract with or is it the property s owner? the supreme court is about to make a decision on a case which could have a big impact on who people can take legal action against. those representing landlords in the court have concerns, too. of course, landlords should be responsible about who they led to, but there are simply things that they can t control. if someone s taken the property and lied to them, what would you expect them to do? it s not possible for the