Monthly Archive for July, 2006

Postponing Possession. Are you now and have you always been a tenant?

By NL on 22/07/2006. 0 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?

So, tolerated trespassers, where were we? Ah yes.

The Court has the power, under s.85(2) Housing Act 1985, to postpone the date of possession of … Read the full post

Posted in Housing law - All, secure-tenancy and Tolerated trespasser. Tags: , , .

Road rage.

By NL on 11/07/2006. 2 Comments

I was at Court the other day, waiting (and waiting and waiting) for a directions hearing. (always beg to be listed or at least called before the family cases).

It was a possession day, so the place was crowded. In strutted/waddled two men, one older, with fresh scabbing on the long scars on his face, one younger, a 6 foot testimony to lager and fast food. They had clearly been through this before, as they found their usher straight away, but were unrepresented.

Mr Carbohydrate then stood by a window. It was a very hot day, but no, he was keeping an eye on his car. About 30 mins later, … Read the full post

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Spleen 1

By NL on 06/07/2006. 0 Comments

Thanks to Tessa Shepperson for noticing this in yesterday’s Times. Granted I haven’t read any more of the report than this. Who knows, it may even have some interesting and useful insights or information to offer. But it seems unlikely.

I’m not at all surprised that the Smith Institute is capable of drawing highly suspect conclusions about cause and effect from a blindingly obvious correllation (poor and ill educated people live in the little remaining social housing. Clearly being a social tenant is the problem).

And, how can I put this? Of course a social tenancy is a ‘positive outcome’ when your alternatives are homelessness, overcrowding or the kind of … Read the full post

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Tolerated trespassers: A Luta Continua

By NL on 05/07/2006. 0 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?

As previously pointed out, it was never going to be easy dealing with the great host of tolerated trespassers left in the wake of Harlow … Read the full post

Posted in Housing law - All, secure-tenancy and Tolerated trespasser. Tags: , , , .
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