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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
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Different treatment for other boroughs – discriminatory policy
AK, R (On the Application Of) v Westminster City Council (2024) EWHC 769 (Admin) This was a judicial review of Westminster's Allocation policy as it applied to 'reciprocal transfers' between another borough and Westminster. As background: The...
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Z2K Housing caseworker Z2K exists to end poverty for the more than 1 in 5 people in the UK who experience it. We provide advice and advocacy and representation on housing and welfare benefits, and at the same time we campaign to secure adequate...
Ch-ch-ch-changes
Manifesto series (in order of publication) Conservative Lib Dem Green Labour Labour I'm deputising for J on the last of the manifesto posts, and (because it was the last published) it is Labour's. As before, I'm not going to be commenting on the...
This land is our land
Manifesto series (in order of publication) Conservative Lib Dem Green Labour Greens I want to like the Greens. I really do. But I can’t shake the concern that they are fundamentally opposed to development on the scale needed to address our national...
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.
Relationship Breakdown and Tenancies FAQ – An outline of the issues and options.
Bedroom Tax First Tier Tribunal – FTT Decisions archive. Upper Tribunal decisions can be found here.
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Ructions in the world of bulk disrepair claims!
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/KB/2024/1521.html
This is an interesting proposition. But enforcement (who and how) would be key.
I am, if I am honest, struggling to comprehend just how the @Conservatives campaign has come to be so dreadful. Sure, it is very funny, but they had money and supposedly competent professionals. Yet everything they have done has just made things worse for them.