Mohammed Rasool has featured here quite often, for getting an ASBi against him for illegal eviction, for his role in quite the bizarrest set of cases, in which he sought re-entry after alleged illegal eviction to properties he had no interest in...
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Job ads – Camden, Bradford, Manchester
Osbornes Law Housing Solicitor An exciting opportunity has arisen for a specialist housing solicitor (2 to 4 years PQE) to join our established and well-respected Housing and Social Care team. This position will give the right candidate an...
Getting it all wrong… LB Redbridge ‘dismal’ homelessness decisions
UO v London Borough of Redbridge (2023) EWHC 1355 (Admin) Ms UO and her 3 children, aged 11, 5 and 3, were homeless and had applied to LB Redbridge. The family had NASS accommodation in the Tottenham area since 2021, after NASS accommodation in...
Job ads – Liverpool, Wakefield
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On the naughty step – a ‘rising star’ of Barking
Sadly, it appears that it is necessary to revive the long lapsed tradition of the Nearly Legal Naughty Step post. We have encountered a number of councils putting, or trying to put, damn silly clauses in their tenancy agreements for secure tenants,...
Think of other ways to meet the duty.
Our grateful thanks to Eleri Griffiths and Martin Hodgson of One Pump Court for the following note of a judicial review of LB Harrow's failure to provide suitable accommodation under section 193 Housing Act 1996, following on from Elkundi (our...
Shared Ownership and Right to Manage
Avon Ground Rents Limited v Canary Gateway (Block A) RTM Company Ltd (2023) EWCA Civ 616 This was the Court of Appeal judgment on a an appeal related to (but not from) the Upper Tribunal decision in Avon Ground Rents Ltd v Canary Gateway (Block A)...
Mental Health Crisis Moratoriums – issues for debt advisors to consider?
Kaye v Lees (2023) EWHC 758 (KB) We saw an injunction being made to prevent Ms Lees from seeking a further mental health crisis moratorium here. In this judgment, Mr Kaye had sought an extension of that injunction. The Court refused to extend the...
Odds and ends
A few snippets of cases of interest: Healey v Fraine & Ors (2023) EWCA Civ 549 Confirmation by the Court of Appeal, if confirmation was needed, that one can't be simultaneously in occupation as a licensee, and in adverse possession of the...
Job Ads – North Wales, North London, South East London
North Wales Law Centre Job Title: Solicitor Contract: Permanent Hours: Full time / Part time or Job Share Flexible / Hybrid working. Responsible...
Renters (Reform) Bill – overview Part 2
Following on from yesterday (17 May) publication of the Renters (Reform) Bill and Part 1 of my overview of what the Bill does, onwards to the rest of it... Pets! There has been a lot of fuss about this, but as Tessa Shepperson has sagely observed,...