WDH Job title Legal Officer Reference W177/22 Location Wakefield District – Hybrid working with 2 days from the office per week Salary £32,783 - £36,335 Hours 37 Closing date 8 January 2023 Contact Amiena Khan, Principal Legal Officer on 07976683417 We are...
Leasehold in the Upper Tribunal – a medley.
Eastpoint Block A RTM Company Ltd v Otubaga (2022) UKUT 319 (LC) Eastpoint are a right to manage company for a block of flats. The company had brought proceedings for a determination of breach of lease under s.168(4) Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002...
Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016: A new dawn for renting in Wales.
To celebrate the coming into force today (or yesterday if you are reading the email update) of a whole new housing legislative scheme in Wales, and thus a whole new jurisdiction of which I know little, we have a guest post from Eleri Griffiths, a barrister...
Selection box
Brief notes on an assortment of cases. Kensington & Chelsea RLBC v Airbnb Payments Ltd (2022) EWHC 2209 (Ch) - not on Bailii Kensington sought a Norwich Pharmacal order against Airbnb Payments Ltd to require disclosure of whether there were booking for...
Job ads: E/S London, National, Camden
TV Edwards LLP Housing Solicitor (3 years+ PQE) – East/South London We are looking for a Solicitor or Legal Executive who is able to meet the Legal Aid Agency supervisor requirements to join our well-established and friendly housing team. You will be...
Assessment of housing needs and cascading unlawfulness
YR, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Lambeth (2022) EWHC 2813 (Admin) Ms YR had applied to Lambeth as homeless. Her household consisted of her three children and four of her sister's children, A, her youngest child, is 6 months old; R is 4; Y is...
Social Welfare Solicitors Qualification Fund
Young Legal Aid Lawyers (YLAL) are proud to announce the second year of their Social Welfare Solicitors Qualification Fund (SWSQF). YLAL has been working with BARBRI and City of London Law Society since early 2021 to develop this scheme which seeks to...
Jobs ads: London/Bristol, E/SW London, SE London., Merseyside.
Deighton Pierce Glynn Top-ranked public interest law firm, Deighton Pierce Glynn, seeks Housing Law solicitor. “Chambers rates DPG as a ‘stand-out firm with an exemplary work ethic‘ and ‘absolute commitment to justice‘.” We are looking for a housing...
Awaab Ishak – Coroner’s ruling and Reg 28 Report to Prevent Future Deaths
We now have the Coroner's Findings and Conclusion for the inquest into the death of Awaab Ishak, and also the Regulation 28 Report for the purpose of preventing future deaths. (My previous post on the death of Awaab Ishak is here. It was written quickly and...
An Avoidable Death
"Every death was avoidable" said Richard Millett KC at the closing submission to the Grenfell Inquiry. Now we know from the inquest verdict into the death of two year old Awaab Ishak's that this death was also thoroughly avoidable,and we know the catalogue...
Service charges, burden of proof, and costs of proceedings
Assethold Ltd v. Nelio Patricio Teixeira Franco (LANDLORD AND TENANT - SERVICE CHARGES - ADMINISTRATION CHARGES - burden of proof - scope of costs incurred for the purpose of the preparation and service of a notice under section 146 of the Law of Property...
Waking watch costs and flawed reports
Assethold Ltd v Leaseholders Of Corben Mews (LANDLORD AND TENANT - SERVICE CHARGES - whether reasonably incurred - costs of a waking watch) (2022) UKUT 282 (LC) An Upper Tribunal appeal of an FTT decision that the costs of a waking watch were not reasonably...