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Hopefully, you're either reading this (a) whilst enjoying the long bank-holiday weekend or (b) back in the office after having enjoyed the long weekend. Either way, a case about holiday chalets seemed appropriate at this time. By s.27A, Landlord...
Eastland Homes Partnership Limited v Sandra Whyte 2010 EWHC 695 (QB) Following Weaver v L&Q and McIntyre v Gentoo, here is a clear indication of the brave new world of public law in which RSLs (sorry, PRHPs) find themselves. It is also an...
The Northern Ireland Court of Appeal has been looking at adverse possession of grazing land.
Hughes v Borodex Ltd. [2010] EWCA Civ 425 This was the Court of Appeal hearing of the appeal from the High Court decision on first appeal that we reported in March 2009. I won't rehearse the facts, which are in the earlier post, but the issue was...
Link Lending Ltd v Bustard [2010] EWCA Civ 424 This was an appeal from a mortgage possession case, centred on the issue of whether Ms Bustard could be said to be in actual occupation of the property such that she had an overriding interest under...
I thought that the point of taking a preliminary issue was, well, because the determination of that issue would likely resolve a significant part of the case. In Paddington Basin Developments Ltd and others v West End Quay Estate Management Ltd...
The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) is (and has been since June 1, 2009), the appellate body for, inter alia, the LVT and the RPTS. When it was established, it adopted the existing procedural rules previously used by the Lands Tribunal, its...
R (Kiana) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2010) QBD(Admin) 20/04/2010. [ Note of extempore judgment on Lawtel] [Now full judgment on Bailii] Mr Kiana came to the UK and applied for asylum. He subsequently lived with his partner and...
So, while we wait for some more housing judgments (and they are coming. Austin v Southwark LBC is being heard in the Supreme Court tomorrow - Wednesday 21 April - and Thursday, for starters), I thought we might take a look at the main parties'...
I have an iPhone (a 3GS, since you asked) and I like it. No, let's be honest, I love it with a passion bordering on the indecent. So when I saw a note on Roll on Friday which said that there was now an iPhone app "which enables users to access the...
The London Borough of Newham is, without doubt, a hard-pressed council with extremely high levels of housing need, insufficient accommodation of any sort of decent quality to meet that need, and an engaged staff, as anybody who read Ahmad would...
An anecdotal rant, for which forgive me. Sometimes one needs to vent, but this is hardly an unusual situation. It is 'just' an example of the viciousness of the public funding boundaries. I've combined a few instances in what follows, and changed...