Springfield Advice & Law Centre The Springfield Advice & Law Centre is a longtime Legal Aid practice with a team of caseworkers specialising in the areas of housing, community care, debt and welfare benefits. We are currently seeking a supervising...
Shared Ownership, assured shorthold and long leases. The mess continues.
Sovereign Network Homes v Ms Vanessa East, Claim Number H01W1247 (13 May 2024, Central London County Court). Thanks to Landmark Chambers for their note on this case. This was a county court appeal of a first instance decision to allow an application to...
Job Ad – London
Cardinal Hume Centre Housing Advisor Permanent Full time 35 hours (part time hours considered) £35998 We are looking for an experienced Housing Advisor with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who is passionate about enabling people to overcome...
Section 23 Care Act and a need for accommodation
Campbell, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Ealing (2024) EWCA Civ 540 This was an appeal from a judicial review of Ealing's decision in May 2022 to end funding for Mr Campbell's temporary bed and breakfast accommodation that had been provided by...
Job Ad – Southwark
Southwark Law Centre Housing Caseworker/Solicitor Salary range NJC scale SP 28-37 £40,389-£49,071 35 hours per week Part time considered We are seeking to recruit a housing caseworker/solicitor to join our housing team of 10 who are based in our offices in...
Goodbye to all that?
So, a 4 July general election it is. Dissolution of Parliament will be on 30 May 2024. If Sunak hasn't already dissolved. Wash-up - pushing through remaining legislation in the course of going through Parliament, has to be completed by 24 May, when...
Don’t dilly-dally on appeals, and mortgage lender paying service charges.
Santander PLC v Harris (2024) EWHC 351 (KB) A quick note on a sad case. This was an application by Mr Harris for an extension of time to appeal a mortgage possession order of his flat made in favour of Santander, his lender, with a money judgment for...
Decisions, decisions (and not automatic ones) – Ending the main housing duty
Bano, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Waltham Forest (2024) EWHC 654 (Admin) Waltham Forest owed Ms Bano the full housing duty. In June 2020, WF made an offer of a private sector tenancy in Derby. Ms Bano refused the offer as unsuitable. In...
Housing conditions quantum – another County Court decision
Well, well. You wait four years then three come along at once. Our thanks to Doughty Street Chambers for their note of a County Court judgment on damages for disrepair and unfitness for human habitation. E v The London Borough of Lambeth (Wandsworth County...
Service of prescribed documents – deemed or actual?
This is a note of a county court appeal on the issue of whether Section 7 Interpretation Act 1978 applied to the prescribed documents required to be given to the tenant before service of a section 21 notice - EPC, GSC, How to Rent Guide. This judgment is of...
Not at home alone, but intending to return
Weintraub v London Borough of Hackney (2024) EWHC 845 (Ch) An appeal of the dismissal of a claim for a declaration that Rabbi Weintraub had the right to buy, which was dismissed on the basis that he was not occupying the property as his only or principal...
Job ads – Suffolk, Coventry/Birmingham, North West Wales
Suffolk Law Centre Housing Solicitor / Legal Aid Supervisor Salary: £30,000 - £37,000 per annum (dependent on experience) Permanent Contract Full Time (37 hours per week) *No Application Deadline – Open-Ended Job Advert* This is an exciting opportunity for...