Nearly Legal is a specialist housing law website, run by solicitors and barristers practising in the field.

The site provides information, updates and discussion on housing, leasehold and landlord & tenant law. It is all free, but it is just our opinions, not legal advice (we can't give legal advice here). Everything that the site offers is set out below.

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Cant Pay

It is rare, if we are entirely honest, for a First Tier Tribunal decision on service charges to be exciting. It is even rarer for there to be mystery and police raids, and “Immunity from Treason” notices, and debts of “Trillions of pounds”, and something called an ‘equity lawyer’. Yet here they all are, and […]

Job ad – Slough

Shelter Paralegal £21,622- £22,647 pa, plus excellent benefits Slough Closing date: 10 August 2017 (at 11.30pm) Would you like to pursue a career in law? Do you have excellent problem solving skills and intellectual aptitude? If so join us as a Paralegal. This is a great opportunity to join a thriving legal team providing a […]

Job Ads – national

Shelter Training Shelter Training is recruiting freelance trainers to deliver our nationwide programme of housing and homelessness courses. Previous training experience, or extensive front line services experience is essential and you will need good knowledge of housing legislation and case law. We are particularly keen to hear from housing law trainers based in the South […]

Not looked into enough to be unaware

Trindade v London Borough of Hackney (2017) EWCA Civ 942 A second appeal of a homeless decision that Ms T was intentionally homeless, on the issues of whether Ms T’s actions were “an act or omission in good faith on the part of a person who was unaware of any relevant fact” as per s.192(2) Housing […]
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