Monthly Archive for October, 2007

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Reincarnation of Tenancy?

By NL on 08/10/2007. 6 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?

This is more of a question than a post, a question on a problem that I think I understand, but that I hope has a … Read the full post

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Honest Guv, it's a genuine da Vinci.

By NL on 07/10/2007. 0 Comments

I am once more indebted to Victorian Maiden for noting the arrest of a senior partner in the recapture of the Madonna of the Yardwinder, violently lifted from Drumlanrig Castle four years ago.

Calum Jones of HBJ Gateley Wareing in Glasgow, a specialist in corporate finance and corporate insolvency, was apparently arrested in the course of a meeting with an insurer, a valuer and an art expert, and the painting was found in HBJ’s offices. HBJ say there was “an interesting, but benign, explanation” for Mr Jones’ involvement. Interesting, it should be. Mr Jones insists that he was helping with the painting’s ‘repatriation’.

VM wonders how difficult it is to … Read the full post

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Busted

By NL on 06/10/2007. 0 Comments

In one of the least surprising brassiere related decisions ever by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, Daniela Scotece has been struck off the roll.

Ms Scotece, an erstwhile criminal defence solicitor at the Nottingham Johnson Partnership, was convicted in April of passing cannabis to a client by smuggling it in to the cell at a Magistrates hearing. The cannabis was concealed in her bra, but that didn’t stop a sniffer dog. Possibly even worse, from the Court’s point of view, she had abused the judicial process to get her client to court.

For some reason the Guardian has now decided she hid the drugs in her knickers, but never mind. … Read the full post

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Simply the Best

By NL on 05/10/2007. 0 Comments

I don’t do memes. In fact I am something of a Darwinian nightmare environment for memes, they land in this blog and, right there and then, reproduction ends. This might suggest why I’m not doing family law.

However, having been kindly been tagged by both Charon QC and Binary Law with the ‘your current 10 best law blogs’ meme recently started by the ever so anonymous Ed. of Blawg Review, I am going to abandon the rule of a lifetime and join in.

Why? Because this meme, plus a potential post I was mulling over, provisionally entitled ‘Damn, We’re good’, together with a post on ‘the social blog… Read the full post

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Do it yourself

By NL on 02/10/2007. 0 Comments

A strong argument for not pursuing a case as a litigant in person can be found in this case. That said, hats off to the applicant for at least getting a Judicial Review hearing in person. Not least after turning up two hours late.

There is an indication that the applicant was represented at some point in the process, but it appears that she abandoned representation in order to maintain “I didn’t do it”, despite the neighbours’ statements, the Environmental Health Officer’s statement, the Noise Abatement Order, the Magistrates’ Court conviction for breach of that order, the Crown Court conviction on appeal, and the findings of the review panel … Read the full post

Posted in Housing law - All, Introductory and Demoted tenancies, Nuisance and secure-tenancy. Tags: , , , , .

Nan Goldin at the Baltic – don't believe the hype

By NL on 01/10/2007. 0 Comments

[Edit 26 October 2007. Update on this story here]

Given my unusual, if not exceptional, melding of experience in law and contemporary art practice, I ought to have jumped at the news that Plod were investigating a photo by Nan Goldin, Klara and Edda Belly Dancing, for a possible offence under the Protection of Children Act 1978. Instead I left it to VM at Ruthieslaw and Head of Legal to have a go.

Why? Partly because I was knackered, as mentioned before, but mostly because the story was a non-story from the get go.

Item one. Plod didn’t raid the Baltic gallery looking for child porn. They were … Read the full post

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