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My apologies for the link to the Daily Mail, but it appears that Fergus Wilson is at it again. For newcomers, Wilson has a considerable history of being a Very Bad Private Landlord. For example, losing to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission on a case...
And so, after mentioning my instruction on Danny Hyde's defence to a claim by Fergus Wilson here, the hearing came to pass.... but we'll come to the result in a minute or several. Fergus Wilson, for the few amongst you who will not have come across him, is a...
[update 22 Jan. The initial version of this post suggested that ARLA advice on providing the How to Rent Guide had been that a link was sufficient. I am very happy to be corrected on this - ARLA did not so advise and had themselves raised this issue in 2016....
Fergus Wilson (for it is he) has managed to cap such highlights of a landlording career as being convicted of assaulting his letting agent, and evicting tenants (including single mothers or 'battered wives') because they were on housing benefit or likely to...
Still lots of cases and other things to write up, now including an appeal decision on liability for unlawful eviction damages by an intermediate landlord where the superior landlord illegally evicted the sub-tenant, and tomorrow (or today, depending on when...
It is being reported that reform of the private rented sector, including the abolition of section 21, will be in the next Queen's Speech. It may not be a renters reform bill but part of a larger 'levelling up' bill, which does make one wonder about its...
An assortment of useful and amusing things for a Sunday. First, the many and varied changes to the notice periods and validity periods of section 21 notices over the last 18 months has caused headaches for all involved in trying to calculate the relevant...
With a sense of grinding inevitability, and a smidgen of schadenfreude, once more Fergus and Judith Wilson feature in these pages. (Here is the previous trail). This time, the appearance is for Judith Wilson being found guilty of failing to comply with a...
The BBC ran a new report today on a case in Birmingham. The headline - "Landlords who say 'no DSS' breaking equality laws" - was, as we shall see, somewhat misleading, but the report did indeed cover a discrimination claim against a letting agency who had...
Suvini v Anderson, Staines County Court, 13 August 2010 It is well known that notices under section 21(4)(a) of the Housing Act 1988 must give notice to a tenant that "after a date specified ... being the last day of a period of the tenancy ... possession of...
The Issue One of the slight frustrations of being an aspiring academic is that you tend to think in bite-size terms as and when the tutorial cycle demands. We've just "done" the now familiar peaks and troughs of the "new model" constructive trust and...
The case of Ferguson v British Gas [2009] EWCA Civ 46 concerns a complaint that British Gas harassed a former customer for some 6 months after she had transferred her gas supply to nPower. Although it is not a housing case, the report contains some useful...