Archive for the 'Various (non-housing)' Category

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Housing paralegal vacancy

Wainwright Cummins LLP are recruiting for an experienced housing paralegal (with a view to a training contract for the right individual) to work in our social housing team.

Our housing team are members of the Housing Law Practitioners’ Association and have been recognised as a ‘leading practice team’ for our social housing tenant work in the recent edition of the ‘Legal 500’. We advise tenants on all aspects of housing law and endeavour to provide a high quality service striving to ensure clients achieve the best possible outcome possible in their cases.

We are referred many of our clients through community and voluntary advice organisations and frequently … Read the full post

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Tower Hamlets Law Centre

Tower Hamlets Law Centre is seeking both a permanent Housing Supervisor and a Housing Caseworker (6 months fixed-term) for its busy office in Whitechapel.

The closing date for applications is Monday, 20 February 2012 at 9am. Details and application materials can be found at the Law Centres site at:

Caseworker

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Paralegal required to work in a busy Property/Housing Litigation Department for a firm in Camden Town. LPC or CPE required. Apply with CV to Sandra Hillard Osbornes, Livery House, 9 Pratt Street, London NW1 7AH (email: sandrahillard@osbornes.net)

Closing date: 6th January 2012… Read the full post

Annual rituals

Happy new year to all who read, comment on or write for Nearly Legal!

This is usually a moment to take stock of the past year and look forward to the next, but I’m feeling far too lazy to do it properly. Luckily, the DCLG have made the task easier by shouting again that they propose to crack down on subletting. In what is rapidly becoming an annual tradition, Grant Shapps has announced plans to consult on proposals to make sub-letting a criminal offence. Rather oddly, Mr Shapps says:

For too long this country has turned a blind eye on the multi-billion pound problem of housing tenancy fraud

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Adams v LGO

I need to make the obvious pun about the Adams family but the monsters in this particular case were really played collectively by Lambeth. The case is R on the application of Janet Adams v The Commission for Local Administration for England. This is essentially a very negative decision on costs in which Pierce Glynn got little or no thanks by way of remuneration for a lengthy battle on behalf of the Adams sisters for suitable accommodation. Janet and Joan Adams are two sisters who have various and significant health problems. Janet is Joan’s primary carer. Neither are able to work and they live on a very restricted income.

Pierce … Read the full post

Glitches, delays and new arrivals

A few updates about the blog…

Those who rely on the email updates for new posts won’t have got any updates for the last two or three days. Those reading the RSS feed won’t have had any updates either. There was a glitch that stopped the feed and emails going out. I have no idea where it came from and it took the website equivalent of lying underneath the car wielding a hammer to sort out. It now has been fixed, but I have no idea if the email update will include all the missed posts. And there were quite a few.

Just in case, the posts missing from the … Read the full post

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Tower Hamlets Law Centre
is seeking an exceptional person for a training contract to start in January 2012. The successful applicant will need to have excellent academic qualifications, a range of effective communication skills, and concrete experience of working with clients in a Legal Aid environment for at least 6 months, delivering social welfare law services to people in need.

Applications close on Monday, 19 December, with interviews to be held on 22 and 23 December.

Please see the application materials on the Law Centres Federation website for details.… Read the full post



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