More results...
Perhaps illustrating the need for the Court of Appeal to deliver the judgment in Moorjani (see preceding post), the December 2015 issue of Legal Action has Beatrice Prevatt's excellent annual 'housing repairs update'. We have covered many of the cases...
Yes, we do have a large backlog of cases to write up, thank you so much for noticing. We will get there, honest. Things have been very busy. In the meantime, a couple of snippets of interest. On 5 December, a Newham Council officer, together with police,...
Gitere, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 3336 (Admin) The risks of a client deciding to go it alone at the last stage of judicial review proceedings. Mr G is an asylum seeker, awaiting the outcome of his...
The Housing Law Practitioners Association annual conference is on 8 December at the Royal College of Surgeons, London. 9.30 am to 6.20 pm 'Housing Rights and Righting Wrongs' This is the housing law conference. Highlights include: A panel discussion on...
A semi-guest note on a pest infestation nuisance county court case involving leaseholders. Interesting on both liability and quantum. Ojo & Ojo v London Borough of Hackney. County Court at Clerkenwell & Shoreditch 4 November 2015 The Claimants were...
Garwood v Bolter & Anor (2015) Ch D 18 November 2015 (Not on BAILII. Note of extempore judgment on Lawtel) I'm working off the lawtel note, which in some (many) respects doesn't entirely make sense. I'll try to flag the bits where I am 'interpreting'....
Toogood v McCourt and others Medway County Court, 6 November 2015 Mr Toogood is a landlord of some 200 properties and runs the Student Lettings Agency in Canterbury. The Defendants were the parents (and guarantors) of three students of five who had had...
Owens & Anor v Grose & Anor [2015] EWHC 839 (QB) As if tenancy deposits weren't complicated enough, now we can add libel claims to the consequences of a heated deposit dispute. It turns out that sending potentially libellous accusations to the...
R (on the Application of Omar) v Wandsworth LBC, (2015) QBD (Admin) (Ouseley J) 11/11/2015 (not on Bailii yet, note of extempore judgment on Lawtel). A tantalising lawtel note on what appears to be the first higher court decision on vulnerability after...
Moosun, & Ors v HSBC Bank Plc (t/a First Direct) [2015] EWHC 3308 (Ch) This was a part - surely now the end part - of a long running saga of a mortgage possession and sale. The novel (if unsurprising) point of law concerned the 'Ors' in this claim. You...
A couple of recent cases have highlighted the issues involved in transferring County Court possession orders to the High Court for enforcement by High Court Enforcement Officers. This is done by landlords, by and large, to bypass the wait for a county court...
A remarkable note on the Community Law Partnership site sets out what may possibly amount to a mass unlawful eviction of secure tenants by Birmingham City Council. Birmingham CC have been using High Court Sheriffs for evicting secure tenants after a...