As we’ve previously reported, the National Assembly for Wales has been seeking legislative competence over social housing and gypsy and traveller law. The Legislative Competence Order has now been approved and is available here. It came into force on July 22, 2010.… Read the full post
Monthly Archive for July, 2010
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The case report on the appeal between the Mayor of London and various occupiers of Parliament Square Gardens has appeared on BAILII.
For those who don’t live in or near London, Parliament Square Gardens (PSG) is the area of grass surrounded by statues and walkway which sits between the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey and the new Supreme Court building. It has often been a site for protest but has been the subject of long-term occupation by a number of protesters. The background to these protests was set out … Read the full post
We welcome comments on our posts. Our readers and commenters are usually a hugely well informed, knowledgeable, witty and interesting group of people.
However, there has been an increase in the number of ‘post and run’ commenters just trying to get a link to their website. There has also been an increase in the number of people adding comments seeking advice or assistance with their own individual issues, although we have long made it clear that we cannot offer advice via the blog. There have also been people who add comments which contain assertions about identifiable individuals which are not supported by evidence, or are rude or abusive in tone, … Read the full post
Free Housing Law conference for the ʻnot for profitʼ sector
Arden Chambers is delighted to invite those working in the ʻnot for profitʼ sector to a free one day housing law conference on Thursday September 9th , 2010. This conference will be eligible for 5 CPD points.
“Fighting mortgage possession proceedings: the technical, the cunning and the brave” – Justin Bates
“Housing for Vulnerable Adults and Children outside Part 7” – Clare Roberts
“Homelessness” – David Carter
“Eligibility in Homelessness under Parts 6 and 7” – Toby Vanhegan “Disability Discrimination and Mental Capacity” – Annette Cafferkey
“Defences to Claims for Possession and Hot topics – from Non-Secure Tenancies to Nuisance”
The results of the Social Welfare Law and combined Housing/Family contract bids are slowly coming through. I am mindful that as I write this, firms/organisations in specific areas have not yet been informed whether they have a contract and if so for how many matter starts. But I have heard enough from various areas of the country and boroughs of London that suggest thats the results are going to have a dramatic impact on the shape of housing law provision. I’m sorry if this increases the already sky high anxiety of those still waiting – over two weeks after they were supposed to be informed.
I don’t propose to go … Read the full post
Despite most of our concerned glances at the various mortgage rescue schemes set up by the New Labour government (see NL’s review of Darling’s Keynesian Splurge), Pickles’ decision to review those schemes announced pretty much as soon as he began to warm his seat in DCLoG, the major amount of cash spent on advertising the schemes, etc, we now know courtesy of the inestimable York Centre for Housing Policy and School for the Built Environment at Heriot Watt how many people benefited from these schemes between January 2009 and March 2010.
For the homeowners mortgage support scheme (which subsidises lenders to forebear taking possession), a grand total of, wait … Read the full post
Berrisford v Mexfield Housing Co-Operative Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 811
We reported on the High Court appeal in this case here. By the time it reached the Court of Appeal it had turned into quite a different case altogether. At the High Court, Ms Berrisford was unrepresented and summary judgment was given against her on Mexfield’s possession claim, on the basis that, as a tenant of a fully mutual housing co-op, her tenancy was outside Housing Act 1988 and was terminable on notice to quit. At first instance, Mexfield had been refused summary judgment on the basis that Ms B’s tenancy agreement said that possession proceedings would only be … Read the full post
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