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People who unlawfully sublet social housing (often at a vast profit) are, in my view, dishonest and immoral fraudsters who deserve a range of punishments too awful for a family-friendly blog like this to describe. I suspect that the makers of Council Houses:...
Cockett v Moore [2011] EWCA Civ 493 (Casetrack only; noted on the GC Bulletin). The Court of Appeal has refused permission to appeal in this costs dispute. Mr Moore was the tenant of Ms Cockett in a one bed flat. There appear to have been a series of tenancy...
Just a short note on Leeds cc v Price (LSC intervening) [2011] EWHC 849 (QB) because it isn't a housing case at all. It's the costs fall-out from Price v Leeds CC [2006] UKHL 10; [2006] 2 A.C. 465 (the other case with Kay v LB Lambeth). You'll remember that...
"All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless" - Yoda Which brings us nicely to (1) Jenson...
I was in B&Q the other day, when a man in an orange overall came up to me and asked if I wanted decking... luckily I managed to get the first punch in. Ok, so that's not the greatest joke in the world (and, as my wife points out, I've never been to...
For those of you interested in selective licensing under Part 3, Housing Act 2004, we bring you news of a possible judicial review case R (Hooper and others) v Hyndburn DC CO/2010/2184, in which Owen J (sitting in the Manchester District Registry) has just...
As Lord Palmerstone might have said: "Only three people have ever really understood this eligibility business - the Prince Consort, who is dead - a German professor, who has gone mad - and I, who have forgotten all about it." That, frankly, sums up my (and,...
The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has, in Earl Cadogan v Cadogan Square Properties Ltd [2011] UKUT 68 (LC), had to grapple with two significant procedural questions involving the LVT and enfranchisement. Cadogan Square Properties Ltd was the nominee...
We noted Craftrule Ltd v 41-60 Albert Palace Mansions (Freehold) Ltd when it was in the High Court (see our note, here). I won't repeat our earlier note - it's basically about what it means to be a "self-contained part of a building" under s.3, Leasehold...
In More Effective Respopnses to Anti-Social Behaviour the Government sets out its plans for reforms of the ASBO and other associated remedies. In brief, the government thinks that: (a) there are too many tools for dealing with ASB and practitioners tend to...
We noted round 1 of Cala Homes (South) Ltd v Secretary of State back in November (see our note here) in which the High Court found that Mr Pickles could not abolish Regional Strategies (e.g. "the south-west plan" governing the approach to, say, new-build...
We covered Daejan Investments Ltd v Benson and others [2011] EWCA Civ 38 when it was in the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) (our note, here). For a summary of the relevant law and facts, please see that earlier post (slightly lazy, I know, but I am very...