The London Evening Standard has a story which is simultaneously unsurprising yet startling in its blatancy. A landlord had entered an agreement to let the property through CityWest Homes - Westminster Council's housing entity. This was the private letting...
On the naughty step. What Brad did next
Readers with a mid to long term memory might recall 'lawontheweb', which featured in a naughty step post (and indeed a Guardian article) in 2012. Behind lawonetheweb was Brad Askew. Despite my best attempts at the time, Brad didn't respond to any of my...
On the naughty step: The unacceptable face of London landlords
Some of you, those in London at least, might have noticed Boris Johnson announce a new, and completely voluntary, no compulsion here, landlord accreditation scheme. The idea being that tenants, desperate to find somewhere in the middle of the worst...
Dialogues with spammers
[Caution, this post contains asterisks and interior design] The 'guest post request' spam continues to flood in (see here and here). 6 or 7 a day. Usually it goes straight into the trash but sometimes... Hello, I would love to send you an article with...
What Barclay did next
As regular readers will know, the NL naughty step posts are not restricted to housing law, though tend to have a legal connection. It is just a question of who might attract our attention at any given moment for the right, or rather wrong reason.. Every now...