Private Law Theory

INTRODUCTION
This article examines the growing phenomenon of property guardianship in England and Wales and argues that it has breathed new life into and raises novel questions as to the regulation of the relationship between landowners and occupiers, the protections available to such occupiers and the long-standing and crucial, property law distinction between leases and licences. Property guardianship describes the situation in which people move into vacant commercial or residential property to live as occupiers in return for a fee, thus providing security to the landowner of the property against squatters whilst paying less than standard market rent in an otherwise crowded and expensive rental sector …

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Chris Bevan, ‘Property guardianship: re-visiting the lease/licence distinction and re-shaping the regulatory landscape of occupational rights in English property law’ (2023) 139 Law Quarterly Review (Jan) 79-100.