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Giles Peaker
Social Welfare Law contracts – update
The LAG news blog is reporting that while Family contracts resulted in 'carnage' with an estimated 1300 out of 2400 firms being awarded contracts - about 54%, in Social Welfare Law the LSC is saying that it believes 'around 70%' of existing providers will be...
Succeeding to a joint tenancy
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council v Hickin [2010] EWCA Civ 868 Where there are two joint tenants of a secure tenancy, of whom one has left and no longer occupies the property, and the remaining tenant in occupation dies, can that tenant's adult child...
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Legal Aid contract round – In the thick of it
The results of the Social Welfare Law and combined Housing/Family contract bids are slowly coming through. I am mindful that as I write this, firms/organisations in specific areas have not yet been informed whether they have a contract and if so for how many...
Co-ops, equity and void leases
Berrisford v Mexfield Housing Co-Operative Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 811 We reported on the High Court appeal in this case here. By the time it reached the Court of Appeal it had turned into quite a different case altogether. At the High Court, Ms Berrisford was...
Not fixing a hole where the rain gets in…
Horridge (t/a Newford Parts Centre) v Downshire House (Reproductions) Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 777 Continuing a brace of nuisance cases, we have this appeal from a split trial on liability on a nuisance claim. The properties involved are both commercial premises,...
A plea to Internet Explorer 6 users
Are you using Internet Explorer 6 to look at this site? Apparently about 22% of you are. (If you are not sure, click on 'help' in the menu, then 'About Internet Explorer', Does it say 'version 6.xxxx'. There you go). If you are using Explorer 6, please stop....
Well, You Needn’t*
Poplar Housing and Regeneration Community Housing Association Limited (Poplar Harca) v Stephen Howe [2010] EWHC 1745 (QB) When we reported on Lana Wilson v London Borough of Harrow [2010] EWHC 1574 (QB) two weeks ago, we noted that another application for...
Illegal eviction and the police
Naughton v Whittle and Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police. Manchester County Court 30/11/2009 (Legal Action July 2010) The tendency of the police to be utterly useless in cases of unlawful eviction has been a recurrent motif on Nearly Legal. They...
Delays, Public Law Defences and Suspended Orders
London Borough of Brent v Corcoran & Anor [2010] EWCA Civ 774 While we wait for the Supreme Court decision in Pinnock, which was heard last week, it seems that the Court of Appeal is determined to set practical limits on the operation of the public law...