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Mitu v London Borough of Camden [2011] EWCA civ 1249 In which the Court of Appeal splits over the proper interpretation of Regulation 8(2) of The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Review Procedures) Regulations 1999, while agreeing on the outcome in...
The Coalition's proposed legislation this week has a marvellously retro feel to it. Sniff the air. Through the whiff of horse dung and open sewers, you can tell we are back in the days of Queen Anne and not solely because the lawfulness of the catholicity of...
In which we discover what happens when an RSL serves a notice confirming an assured tenancy after serving a s.21 notice on an assured shorthold tenant. Saxon Weald Homes Ltd v Chadwick [2011] EWCA Civ 1202 Mr Chadwick had been given an AST by Saxon...
Tricky things, ex parte interim injunctions. Dealt with on the papers, or possibly by a phone hearing with a duty Judge, there is little time for detail and, obviously, no argument from the other side. Which makes it all the more important that the applicant...
Abdullah v Westminster City Council [2011] EWCA Civ 1171 Do matrimonial home rights apply where notice to leave to a non-tenant spouse has been given by a joint tenant who is not the spouse? A question raised and answered in this homeless case. This was a...
Williams & Anor v Hinton & Anor [2011] EWCA Civ 1123 This, and please bear with me here, was an application for leave to appeal a Circuit Judge's trial judgment. It was also an application for an injunction to restrain enforcement of the trial judgment,...
Jones & Anor v Ruth & Anor [2011] EWCA Civ 804 We missed this one when it came out in July 2011. Not sure why - sorry. This was an appeal of a claim in nuisance, trespass, harassment and personal injury. The claim arose out of building works on an...
I have had a question from the editor of the Small Places blog, which is a very fine blog on human rights and community care, with attention to Court of Protection matters. I think it is a question which might benefit from the assembled housing law mavens...
Windsor and District Housing Association v Hewitt [2011] EWCA Civ 1096 (Not on Bailii or elsewhere. We've seen a transcript). It is of interest not least for the Court of Appeal's view of the meaning of the funding limitations on a Public Funding...
Bah v The United Kingdom - 56328/07 [2011] ECHR 1448 This is a decision of the European Court of Human Rights on the regulations for eligibility for housing support, after the declaration of incompatibility in Westminster v Morris [2005] EWCA Civ 1184. It is...
The mass letter on misrepresentation of trespass will be going out this morning (Monday 26 Sept). The letter will be sent to all the major newspapers, and BBC and ITN news, probably before you read this. The Guardian has what I think is a good article on the...
Haringey LBC v Theobald. Clerkenwell and Shoreditch County Court 7 April 2011 Hat tip to September's Legal Action 'Recent Developments in Housing Law' for this County Court case, and Daniel Fitzpatrick at Hodge Jones & Allen. Not a very significant case...