Thanks to the US Above the Law for the light relief, a Miami law student gets his comeuppance on some US Court show. This does faintly remind me of a local District Judge in attitude, if not in anything else at all.
Monthly Archive for October, 2007
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A very long, frantic and difficult day, without any lunch, but successful in a way that means the last week and a half of intense busyness was, in retrospect, worth it. I can’t give details, not only for reasons of anonymity, but because matters aren’t yet signed and sealed.
But can I just say – Good Result.
Oh and to my friend the opponent, don’t mess us around for over a year again, because it costs.
I might be able to catch up with a few posts now, depending.… Read the full post
I’m flat out at the moment. Even my usual posting windows of a Saturday or Sunday have seen me either too tired or working to manage a post. So all I can manage is to point to two cases for Housing people’s attention, to which I will return when I have time.
In the Admin Court
Gilboy, R (on the application of) v Liverpool City Council & Anor [2007] EWHC 2335 (Admin)
Article 6 Human Rights and demoted tenancy possession decision reviews.
In the Court of Appeal
Harouki v Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea [2007] EWCA Civ 1000
Overcrowding, homelessness and Part VII applications.… Read the full post
Mr Justice Munby has issued a stern statement on the use and abuse of ex-parte injunction applications to the Administrative Court in R (Lawer) v Restormel Borough Council [2007] EWHC 2299 (Admin).
Covering failure to use the Pre-Action Protocol, non-disclosure of material evidence, unexplained delay and requests for unreasonable periods of notice for application for discharge (48 hours, in this case) in draft Orders, the Judgment marks the Admin Court getting distinctly annoyed at what are scathingly described as ‘prevailing professional approaches’ in both the Family and Administrative Courts.… Read the full post
‘It seems very pretty,’ she said when she had finished it, `but it’s RATHER hard to understand!’ (You see she didn’t like to confess, ever to herself, that she couldn’t make it out at all.) `Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas — only I don’t exactly know what they are! However, SOMEBODY killed SOMETHING: that’s clear, at any rate — ‘
There was a good, if unsurprisingly doom-laden article in the current Gazette on the post first of October introduction of fixed fees in some areas of Civil Legal Aid. What is confirmed is the strange looking glass world we are entering in pursuit of the new … Read the full post
[Edit Feb 2008 - Richmond have been given permission to appeal this judgment to the House of Lords. No date yet.]
An interesting situation, if perhaps an increasingly common one, has just been set out in the Court of Appeal case of Holmes-Moorhouse v London Borough of Richmond-Upon-Thames [2007] EWCA Civ 970.
The situation is a family break up where, by consent or otherwise, a s.8 Children Act 1989 shared residence order has been made for the children. One parent then applies to the local authority as homeless and claims resident children as priority need.
In this case, the local authority said no priority need for the father as the … Read the full post
Thanks to Binary Law for the news that the OPSI Legislation search now comes with an RSS feed on searches for easy updates.
Unfortunately, having spent an evening wrestling with it, I’d damned if I can get specific search feeds to display on this blog. The feeds either aren’t recognised by the WordPress plugins I’m using, or involve some not insignificant code hacking to display at all, albeit badly, on a separate page.
I’m going to spend some more time trying to sort this out, when I have time, but for now here are the links for search feeds on ‘Council Tenancies‘, ‘Social Housing‘, ‘Housing … Read the full post
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