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The DCLG have issued a consultation paper on 'dispute resolution' under the (to be) amended Mobile Homes Act 1983 (which will also have effect for Travellers) The consultation paper can be downloaded from us [PDF]. How to respond is at the back of the...
The outsourcing of s.202 Housing Act 1996 reviews by local authorities to private, commercial bodies came under scrutiny in Charlotte Augustin v London Borough of Barnet, Central London County Court, 22 May 2009 (no report available online yet). There are a...
McKenzie, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Waltham Forest [2009] EWHC 1097 (Admin) was a Judicial Review initially brought on grounds that the local authority refused to provide the claimant with temporary accommodation following her...
After the rather pressured posts of the last few days, time for a quick tiptoe through the Nearly Legal search logs for the search terms that brought people here that, let me be honest, are beyond even our considerable collective power to answer: law on...
R (G) v Southwark [2009] UKHL 26 was the appeal to the House of Lords of this Court of Appeal judgment. At issue was whether Southwark could effectively avoid its s.20 Children Act duty to accommodate a homeless child by referral to the Housing Department by...
It is official, orders signed and everything. As of today, 20 May 2009, Schedule 11 of the Housing & Regeneration Act is in force, save for paragraphs 3(3), 8(3) and 14(3), which we are arguing about below. Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Commencement...
With grateful thanks to James Stark of Garden Court North and North West Housing Law Practitioners Group, we can pass on some news on the introduction of Schedule 11 Housing & Regeneration Act 2008 and the end of the tolerated trespasser. The SI should...
Legal Action May 09 housing updates contain a few tenancy deposit cases, which further muddy the waters... Seghier v Rollings, Bow County Court, 6 March 2009. An assured shorthold beginning in May 2007. A deposit was paid by Mr Seghier to the letting agent...
The May edition of Legal Action's housing updates contains a report on Khan v Iqbal, Bury County Court, 13 March 2009. Ms Khan was an assured shorthold tenant on rent of £650 pm. She lived with her children aged 15 and 12 She got into rent arrears. The...
May's Legal Action housing reports, as compiled by Jan Luba QC and HHJ Madge, are positively bursting with interesting stuff. Pretty much all the High Court/Court of Appeal cases and some of the rest have already been reported here. But there are more than a...
R (Prince) v Social Security Commissioners & SoS for the DWP & London Borough of Southwark (Interested parties)[2009] EWHC 1181 (Admin) concerns what can only be described as a bit of a chancer. Mr Prince had claimed Jobseekers Allowance. He had also claimed...
Apologies for not getting this one out on Friday or over the weekend. It was on my list, but, frankly, the details of this were off my usual turf and it took an hour or several to digest and fit in place. So, only a day or so late... A v London Borough of...