Monthly Archive for June, 2006

Know your usher.

By NL on 27/06/2006. 0 Comments

Off to court tomorrow, standing in for a colleague. I’m quite looking forward to it. I haven’t been for a few weeks as all my cases are on adjournment.

An inner city County Court on a busy list day, a local authority possession day for instance, might seem like an odd thing to enjoy, given that it is usually a parade of misery, despair, indignation and incomprehension. And, if you’ve got a tricky hearing coming up, the focus is entirely on finding the other side and the pre-hearing haggling and positioning that ensues, so the broader theatre gets missed.

But that haggling is part of it, of course: the Souk … Read the full post

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Oh, for pity's sake

By NL on 19/06/2006. 0 Comments

Vera Baird says she was wrong to say that judges are liberal wusses. Attorney General says ‘ok that’s all right then and some sentences are too lenient’. Who knew the bench would snap back?

Meanwhile, the prisons will be as full as a commuter train in 12 weeks time.

After a fortnight of intense political debate over sentencing, the prison population, which is now rising by 148 a week, hit a record of 77,785 on Friday – with room for only a further 1,715 inmates. “We are looking at a system where prison numbers are rising inside what is already a hugely pressured area. That may hit the buffers

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Tolerated Trespassers – the aftermath

By NL on 19/06/2006. 7 Comments

Table of contents for Tolerated Trespassers

  1. Tolerated Trespassers – the aftermath
  2. Tolerated trespassers: A Luta Continua
  3. Postponing Possession. Are you now and have you always been a tenant?
  4. Assured trespassers?
  5. Assured tenant or trespasser? The waiting begins.
  6. Postponed assured trespassers verdict soon(ish).
  7. Permanent trespassers and enforceable possession orders.
  8. More on London & Quadrant v Ansell
  9. White v Knowsley – Court of Appeal Judgment
  10. Reincarnation of Tenancy?
  11. S.85 Application Randomness
  12. Permanent trespassers – a fan letter
  13. Payne-less
  14. Post mortem revival of tenancy
  15. When does enforceability end?

[Edit. As it turned out, this was part 1 of a continuing series. See the bottom of the post]

Little of this is likely to … Read the full post

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Sally Field

By NL on 17/06/2006. 0 Comments

Nick Holmes at Binary Law has blogged me. Blimey.

“Looks like it could be a good one “. No pressure then.

I’m surprised, but then again, I suppose that there aren’t so many UK legal blogs to enable a new one to be overlooked.

I’m going to save more considered comments on lawyer’s blogs for another time. However, IT in general seems to be lawyer’s weak point. In my admittedly limited experience, solicitors use IT and the interweb thingy, but don’t really understand it (with obvious exceptions). As a newcomer to the profession, I am astonished that digital documents, trial bundles etc. have not been taken up, although apparently there … Read the full post

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EU Citizen and Homeless?

By NL on 07/06/2006. 0 Comments

There was briefly a loophole. If, somehow, an EU citizen in England was on Income Support and became homeless, there was a way they could be eligible for housing assistance from local authorities under the Homelessness (England) Regulations 2000, because they were subject to immigration control as non-workseekers, oddly enough. I was looking after a Housing Act appeal on these grounds and was happy when this was confirmed by the Court of Appeal in Barnet BC v Ismail and Abdi [2006] EWCA Civ 383.

But, from 20th April 2006, this is no more. Rushed through Regulations, which didn’t even get the usual 21 days to be inspected by a … Read the full post

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1. Vendemiaire Part 1. Wither Legal Aid?

By NL on 05/06/2006. 0 Comments

First day of the new regime, as the firm where I worked is absorbed into another larger firm. All the usual issues over supervision, disbursements, etc., etc.. All the necessary adaptions to working practice, culture of firm etc., etc.. But beyond that, the whole takeover represents a more serious symptom of what is happening to the sector that does publicly funded work, particularly for civil legal aid.

It seems fair to say that the future direction of civil legal aid funding has been made clear, even though the final Carter report is still awaited and pilot projects are still piloting. The future looks roughly like this:

In urban areas, contracts … Read the full post

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Hi, excuse the state of the place.

By NL on 01/06/2006. Closed

A bit barren and basic, I know, but I’ve just moved in. I’m still looking for the kettle in the boxes marked kitchen and we’ll have to put up with the curtains that were there when I moved in for the moment. I *think* the tea cups are in the third box down.… Read the full post

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