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Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5*
It takes a special kind of person who, faced with the multifaceted horrors of our disfunctional housing system, decides that what is really needed is to make it harder for some people to access social housing and to create new grounds or...
Job Ad – Suffolk
Suffolk Law Centre Housing Solicitor / Legal Aid Supervisor Salary: £30,000 – £32,000 per annum (dependent on experience) Permanent Contract Full Time (37 hours per week) Suffolk Law Centre is seeking a Housing Solicitor / Legal Aid Supervisor to...
The HMO that wasn’t – Rent Repayment Order appeal
Barker v Shokar (HOUSING - RENT REPAYMENT ORDER - criteria for identifying a 'self-contained flat' - whether building was a house in multiple occupation - adequacy of reasons) (2024) UKUT 17 (LC) This was a landlord's appeal of a rent repayment...
Job ad – Bradford
Citizens Advice Bradford & Airedale and Bradford Law Centre Housing Solicitor Job Opportunity Role: Housing Solicitor (Legal Aid contract) Hours: 37 hours per week Holidays: 25 days plus 8 bank holidays plus 3 additional days Salary: £33k -...
Housing and Children Act – homeless 17 year olds
A couple of brief notes on two judicial reviews on housing, the Children Act 1989 and 'looked-after children'. BC, R (On the Application Of) v Surrey County Council (2023) EWHC 3209 (Admin) BC was a child who had been asked to leave the family home...
Job ads – Manchester and Bristol
WTB Solicitors LLP Housing solicitor WTB Solicitors LLP are recruiting a solicitor newly qualified to 3 years pqe to join our specialist housing law team which only provides advice to tenants. This is a fantastic role for a committed solicitor to...
An end to ‘a reasonable period’? Awaab’s Law
As you will doubtless recall, the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 introduced a new section 10A Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, implying a term into all social tenancies that the landlord will comply with all 'prescribed requirements' on...
Homelessness in Wales: An update
(Our very grateful thanks to Mike Norman of Harrow Law Centre - our official Wales correspondent, whether he knows it or not - for the following update.) On 10th October 2023, the Welsh government released its Consultation on the White Paper on...
Upper Tribunal on ‘person managing’ and ‘person in control’ of HMO for an RRO
Cottam & Ors v Lowe Management Ltd (HOUSING - RENT REPAYMENT ORDER - statutory definitions of "person managing" and "person in control of" an HMO) (2023) UKUT 306 (LC) This is a quite significant Upper Tribunal decision on a rent repayment...
Failed succession, residential care and human rights incompatibility
Dudley Metropolitan Council v Mailley (2023) EWCA Civ 1246 We first saw this very sad case on first instance in the High Court - our note here. Ms Mailley was defending possession of a Dudley property of which her late mother had been the secure...
Deficient enquiries and accommodation pending review
Saint Sepulchre, R (On the Application Of) v Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (2023) EWHC 2913 (Admin) A judicial review of RBKC's refusal to provide temporary accommodation pending section 202 review of the decision that Mr S was not...