Read the full judgment text of DCCJ 002028/1979 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 8 November 1979.
1. About eleven years ago, the suit premises, being a domestic flat in a post-war building, were let by the plaintiff to the defendant. It is common ground that it was a "condition" in the letting that the defendant should not use the suit premises for any illegal purposes. The defendant has been arrested for, charged with and convicted of an offence of "book-making" committed on the 6th January 1979 in the suit premises. It has further been conceded by the applicant that the said "condition" wa