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The government is consulting on two technical (and, I suspect, wholly uncontroversial) changes to leasehold law. The consultation paper is available here, with responses required by September 12, 2011. Security of tenure Where a long lease comes to...
Crown Estate Commissioners v Peabody Trust & Poplak [2011] EWHC 1467 (Ch) [link to PDF] As we noted a while ago, the transfer of the Crown Estates Commissioners social housing estates to the Peabody Trust had brought about a test case on the...
Well, there we are, Nearly Legal is 5 years old. In internet terms that is positively middle-aged. We will be keeping a close eye open for any signs of mid-life crisis - whatever the website equivalent of wearing too tight jeans and buying a...
The re-design of the administration of housing benefit has sought to address the scheme's complexity in recent years - the local housing allowance is a particular example of this re-design, with the shift to flat rate payments according to...
We use Bailii a lot here on Nearly Legal. If there is a freely available copy of a judgment, we will link to it as a matter of course and Bailii is the only source of those free copies, at least for the High Court and Court of Appeal. The service...
[Caution - the following story comes from the Daily Mail. It should be read with this source in mind and the inevitable provisio that this site makes no assertions as to the accuracy, truthfulness or reliability of the story, because the Daily Mail...
We noted J. L. v the United Kingdom here. Now there are two further English possession cases at the 'questions to the parties' stage of the European Court of Human Rights. Birch and Others v UK Application no. 26393/10 Birch arises out of...
Eaton Mansions (Westminster) Ltd v Stinger Compania De Inversion SA [2011] EWCA Civ 607 We're a bit late with this one, sorry. There was a bit of a debate about whether it was an NL case or not, but I found it interesting and it concerns...
Or round 3 of Ms Pritchard's refusal to give up her former property to the 'We buy your right to buy home' firm that had obtained possession. Fineland Investments Limited v Pritchard (2011) Ch D 17/05/2011 [Note on Lawtel, unreported elsewhere]...
Windsor and District Housing Association v Hewitt (2011) CA (Civ Div) 19/05/2011 [On Lawtel and in a note from Tanfield Chambers.] Not chicken related, thankfully. This was the Court of Appeal hearing of Windsor & District's appeal from the...
You may recall, almost two years ago now, we reported on the case of Defence Estates v L [2009] EWHC 1049 (Admin), under the title “Something of a mess”. The title was a reference to a comment of Collins J during the course of discussions after his...
Oxford City Council v Bull [2011] EWCA Civ 609 In which the Court of Appeal had to consider whether the homeless applicant had made himself intentionally homeless and whether he was in priority need. Mr Bull separated from his wife in June 2009 and...