Renters’ Rights Act 2025 - The Key Issues for Litigators

Introduction

Civil and commercial litigators advising landlords, agents, PRS businesses and local authorities will be central to managing the disputes and enforcement activity triggered by the Renters’ Rights Act 2025.

The Act introduces extensive new compliance duties, expanded tenant rights and a significantly more complex enforcement landscape.

For litigators, the key challenges will include navigating new possession routes, responding to regulatory breaches, handling rent related disputes and managing claims arising from discrimination or failures to meet the Decent Homes Standard. With substantial financial penalties and heightened scrutiny from local authorities, understanding the litigation risk profile of the Act is essential.

This course provides a practical overview of the provisions most likely to generate disputes, claims and enforcement action, equipping litigators to advise landlord clients and PRS stakeholders ahead of implementation.

What You Will Learn

This course will cover the following:

• The key changes from the Renters (Reform) Bill and how they reshape the dispute landscape
• Abolition of s.21, and of s.8 reform regime, focusing on grounds for possession
• Rent disputes: Stating Rent, Rent Bidding and Rent Increase Reform
• Provisions for pets and mandatory consents: litigation risks arising from refusals, conditions and breaches
• Protections against discrimination: new causes of action and how they may be tested in court
• Implementation of the ‘Private Rented Sector Database’ and Ombudsman/Redress Scheme
• Application of the Decent Homes Standard to the Private Rented Sector including Awaab’s Law
• Preparing for implementation - practical guidance and top tips