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This sounds like a rather odd case, noted on the Garden Court bulletin. It is a refusal to grant permission for Judicial Review of a Council's refusal to carry out a review of the method it had decided upon to discharge its full housing duty. Still...
The DCLG has just published new guidance (available here) on promoting mutual exchange. This is, we are told, an under-used process which can bring happiness and joy to landlords and tenants. For the latter, it is a more realistic option for...
Morshead Mansions Ltd v Di Marco [2014] EWCA Civ 96 marks the tragic demise of a clever and useful remedy fashioned by Mann J in the High Court case of the same name (our note here). In brief, ss.21, 22, Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 entitle...
The higher courts and tribunals have all been having a busy leasehold-related start to the year. None of these are hugely important, hence doing a short collective note on them. The really important cases will come later this year (Phillips v...
R (on the application of PK) v Harrow LBC (2014) QBD Admin 30 January 2014 [Lawtel note, no transcript yet] This judicial review is possibly one for the 'what were they thinking?' pile. The Claimants were the children of M. The family was street...
A new bedroom tax First Tier Tribunal decision from Monmouthshire raises some issues on the FTTs' approach to room use. The decision notice with summary reasons is here (and also on the FTT decisions page). The Claimant lived in the property with...
The DWP has laid the Statutory Instrument amending the benefit regulations to do away with the 'pre 1996 claim' exemption to the bedroom tax. It is to come into effect on 3 March 2014, making all those exempt liable for the bedroom tax from that...
The interim judgment in the Mercantile Court proceedings that gave rise to the Order I posted a few days ago has appeared on Bailli. Barons Finance Ltd & Ors v Numerous Defendants [2014] EWHC 138 (QB) There is quite simply too much to deal with...
A brief note on what I think was a homelessness s.204 appeal, but have only a local newspaper report to go on. The issue was the status of the review officer, and specifically, whether St Albans District Council had, as it purported to do,...
Winterstein v France 17/10/13 (judgement in French only) The applicants in this case were travellers who were part of a community that had occupied land on a site (known as bois du Trou-Poulet) in the Herblay region of France and had made it their...
[Update. 5 Feb 2014. The important Judgment of HHJ Mackie QC that led to the order below is now on Bailii. See this post.] A few days ago, I posted an order made by HHJ Mackie QC in the Mercantile Court in July 2013 in relation to Mr Dharam Prakash...
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council v Khan [2014] EWCA Civ 41 A rather odd second appeal from a s.204 appeal decision. At issue was whether the Council's review officer should take into account "the homeless person's state of knowledge about the...