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No release from gas

Trecarrel House Limited v Rouncefield, County Court at Exeter, 13 February 2019 (unreported elsewhere) The gas safety certificate section 21 wars rumble on. Following Caridon Property Ltd v Monty Shooltz (our note here), we have a further County Court appeal decision. This time from Exeter and concerning s.36(7) of the 1998 Gas Safety Regulations. That […]

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U Can’t Do This*

This is another in what turns out to be an occasional series of unregulated, unqualified ‘Evictions R Us’ outfits making catastrophic errors and costing their clients large amounts of money. You may recall Kassam v Gill & Gill, featuring ‘Remove a Tenant’. Now we have another example. Ojo & Opaleye v McAuliffe, County Court at […]

HHSRS Review

A company called RHE Global in Carmarthenshire has been appointed by MHCLG to conduct a review of the HHSRS. They want responses by 24th February to an online questionnaire (https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/5KBYJDD) particularly from tenants and those organisations and services which provide support and advice to tenants. There are 17 questions – this does not appear to […]

@nearlylegal 20/02/2019

There are those times when popular music sums up the moment. The Sex Pistols in 1976. The Specials in 1981. Pulp in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@nearlylegal 20/02/2019

Incoming blogsearch: "verbal contractual licence and council tax liability” Sweetie, I suspect council tax is the least of your problems.
@nearlylegal 20/02/2019

Incoming blog search (and illustration of dangers of amateur landlords) : "do i need to serve a section 21 notice i… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@nearlylegal 20/02/2019

“Oh, it was *that* Derek Hatton? I thought it was another one.” twitter.com/jenwilliamsmen…
@nearlylegal 19/02/2019

I think @MarkJLittlewood has confused a free society with ‘doing whatever the hell I like’. I don’t recall 'being a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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