Tag Archive for 'HLPA'

Miscellany

By NL on 21/04/2009. 0 Comments

In the continuing absence of anything like actual case law, here are some news items and catch up bits on previous stories.

The Government has announced the availability of its Homeowner Mortgage Support Scheme. This is available for those with mortgages up to £400,000 and savings under £16,000, who have suffered a sudden drop in income. They must currently have mortgages with a limited list of providers (Lloyds Bank Group which includes Halifax and Bank of Scotland, Northern Rock, the Royal Bank of Scotland which includes NatWest and Ulster Bank, Bradford and Bingley, Cumberland Building Society, and the National Australia Bank Group which includes Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank. So, … Read the full post

Posted in Housing law - All and Various (non-housing). Tags: , .

Housing Law Conference clash

By NL on 09/12/2008. 7 Comments

So, the Housing Law conference is tomorrow, 10 December, and I suspect a swathe of the Nearly Legal contributors will be there. I will, anyway. Naturally this coincides precisely with the House of Lords handing down one of the more significant housing related judgments of recent times on the tolerated trespassers cases, as we noted a couple of posts ago.

Thusly tomorrow may prove to be a test of both my mobile blogging kit and instant judgment digestion abilities. But should either fail – and given that this will be a day rammed to the gunwales with housing law goodness in any event – you may have to wait till … Read the full post

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

A shameless plug: HLPA Conference 10 Dec 2008

By J on 20/09/2008. 0 Comments

The Housing Law Practitioners’ Association annual conference is being held on the 10th December 2008 at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London. Those of you who subscribe to Legal Action should already have had your application forms, but, for everyone else, details can be found here. The speakers include:

  • Rabinder Singh QC on equality and discrimination law after Malcolm;
  • Andrew Arden QC, Jan Luba QC and Caroline Hunter on current issues in homelessness;
  • Robert Latham and Christopher Baker on allocation schemes;
  • James Stark, Derek McConnell and Bob Lawrence (CLG) on possession proceedings;
  • Matthew Hutchings and Stephen Cottle on housing and human rights.

The conference lasts from 9am … Read the full post

Posted in Housing law - All. Tags: , , .

Views and news from Hlpa meeting

By NL on 17/09/2008. 2 Comments

The Hlpa meeting tonight (17/9/08) was a particularly interesting one, on the topic of disrepair. Talks were from Mel Cairns, Andrew Brookes of Anthony Gold and Marina Sergides of Garden Court.

Among the end of meeting news items were:

  • The current intent is that the main body of the Housing & Regeneration Act, including the tolerated trespasser provisions, will come into force on 6 April 2009.
  • New Housing Benefit regs coming into force on 6 October 2008 mean that HB backdating claims can only be made for 6 months (for those of working age) and 3 months (for pensioners). Not good news.

There were a few surprises for me arising … Read the full post

Posted in Benefits, Disrepair and Housing law - All. Tags: , , , , .
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