ECC 235/2001
Type
Case
Court
Egypt Court of Cassation
Jurisdiction
Egypt
Taxonomy
Regulatory Compliance, Rent & Service Charges, General Landlord & Tenant
Copyright
LexisNexis
Decision date
21 May 2001
Catchwords
Landlord – Tenant – Rent – Eviction – Rent Commission
This case involved whether a rent should be decreased or a tenant evicted. The court should have followed the rent ruled on by the rent commission.
Background
A tenant filed a case against a landlord before the court requesting the landlord decrease the rent in accordance with the estimation of the rent commission.
The landlord filed a case against the tenant before the court requesting the dismissal of the tenancy agreement and eviction of the tenant. The landlord said that the tenant had failed to pay the rent in time.
The tenant appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court upheld the appealed ruling.
Decision
The tenant appealed the ruling before the court of cassation. The court repealed the ruling and referred the case to the court of appeal. The court dismissed the case made by the landlord and ruled that the landlord should decrease the rent.