Nearly Legal
Housing Law News and Comment
Nearly Legal is a specialist housing law website for England (and occasionally Wales), run by solicitors and barristers practising in the field.
The site provides information, updates and discussion on housing and landlord & tenant law. Issues covered include homelessness, possession and forfeiture, unlawful eviction, disrepair and housing fitness, regulation and licensing, service and major works charges, right to manage and anything else that interests us. Contents include frequent case reports, updates on statute law, guides and key documents.
It is all free, but it is just our opinions, not legal advice. Please do not ask for advice on individual matters
Latest Posts
Rent Repayment Orders, criminal standard, and new evidence on appeal
Salva v Singh-Potiwal (HOUSING - HOUSE IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATION) [2019] UKUT 307 (LC) This was the appeal of a First Tier Tribunal decision on Ms Salva's application for a rent repayment order. Ms Salva has a tenancy of a room in a property owned by...
Job ad – North West
Keoghs Nicholls Lindsell & Harris are looking for a newly qualified solicitor or paralegal (with possibility of a training contract) for a 12 month fixed contract, commencing in May 2020. The successful candidate will be joining an established...
Electrical safety checks – soon with added regulation
The draft of The Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020 has been laid in Parliament. The regs require a resolution of each house, so this will not be an immediate approval, but should be soon - it looks...
“I know it gives a person pause”
Camelot! Camelot! I know it gives a person pause But in Camelot, Camelot Those are the legal laws Camelot Guardian Management Ltd previously pleaded guilty to 15 charges for failing to licence an HMO and for multiple breaches of HMO management...
Key Resources and information
Section 21 Notice validity flowchart – downloadable flowchart for checking whether Section 21 notices are validly served and effective.
How to Rent Guide Archive – What version of the Guide was current when? MHCLG don’t provide this information. We have dates and downloads for all versions.
Bedroom Tax First Tier Tribunal – FTT Decisions archive. Upper Tribunal decisions can be found here.
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“You have your law, I have mine”: a Home Office civil servant making legal arguments in the immigration tribunal, according to this damning @ILPAimmigration dossier http://www.ilpa.org.uk/resources.php/35905/ilpas-response-to-the-icibis-call-for-evidence-on-the-work-of-presenting-officers-17-january-2020
Rent Repayment Orders, criminal standard, and new evidence on appeal. - Proving things on RRO applications, and FFT reasoning that was not as clear as it should have been on the evidence. https://nearlylegal.co.uk/2020/01/rent-repayment-orders-criminal-standard-and-new-evidence-on-appeal/
Job ad – North West https://nearlylegal.co.uk/2020/01/job-ad-north-west-2/