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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.
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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...
The Land Song*
Manifesto series (in order of publication) Conservative Lib Dem Green Labour Lib Dems What do the Liberal Democrats offer us? At a purely personal level, I’ve been quite impressed with the Liberal Democrats over the past few years. Daisy Cooper has...
I wanna be elected: Conservative edition
Manifesto series (in order of publication) Conservative Lib Dem Green Labour Conservatives It's fashionable to treat elections with a weary, nay affected, cynicism and a refrain of “they’re all as bad as each other”. That, frankly, is nonsense. And...
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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All the bits that don’t make it to the blog.
The epic NL looks at housing/leasehold/homelessness issues across the English parties’ manifestos. Three by J (Tory, Lib Dem and Green), one by me (Labour). No Reform as a) they are not serious, & b) as J put it ‘they are – without exception – comprised of terrible human beings.’
The epic NL looks at housing/leasehold/homelessness issues across the English parties’ manifestos. Three by J (Tory, Lib Dem and Green), one by me (Labour). No Reform as a) they are not serious, & b) as J put it ‘they are – without exception – comprised of terrible human beings.’
NL manifesto series, looking at housing, leasehold and homelessness across the manifestos. 1. I wanna be elected: Conservative edition - Manifesto Series. Conservative's manifesto on housing, homelessness (nada) and leasehold. By J.
https://nearlylegal.co.uk/2024/06/i-wanna-be-elected-conservative-edition/
NL manifesto series, looking at housing, leasehold and homelessness across the manifestos. 1. I wanna be elected: Conservative edition - Manifesto Series. Conservative's manifesto on housing, homelessness (nada) and leasehold. By J.
https://nearlylegal.co.uk/2024/06/i-wanna-be-elected-conservative-edition/
Litigant in Person (or apparently LiP’s wife) makes submissions on bogus cases - AI strikes again? (The rest of his case faired no better, with no basis in law). https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/KB/2024/1400.html#back12
Big day for predators in the garden. First a hovering hawk, maybe a kestrel? Then had to fend off the heron.