Lecture considers value of a home

A public lecture organised by the Legal Research Foundation and Auckland University Faculty of Law will consider what the law considers when assigning a value to homes.

"Losing Homes: Personal Stories and the Problem of 'Chalk and Cheese' in Law" will be presented on 4 April 2012 by Professor Susan  Bright of the University of Oxford.

The lecture will discuss the problem of incommensurability of values in actions to recover the possession of homes. It will look at whether homes do, and should, matter in law. When a home is being taken from someone, does the law enable weight to be attached to the importance of the home to a particular person? Professor Bright will also ask how a judge is meant to balance the home values against the rights or the owner or creditors or the wider public interest.

Professor Bright is a qualified solicitor and a Lawyer Chair of the English Residential Property Tribunal Service. Her current research interests focus around the home in land law and "green leases".

The lecture will be held at the Stone Lecture Theatre at 6:00pm.