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Westminster Council have long had a problem with homelessness. I'm sure you will recall the Westminster Council's housing leader's letters to Grant Shapps of last year, imploring him to let them discharge duty by offering an out of borough private...
We noted Craftrule Ltd v 41-60 Albert Palace Mansions (Freehold) Ltd when it was in the High Court (see our note, here). I won't repeat our earlier note - it's basically about what it means to be a "self-contained part of a building" under s.3,...
Hounslow v Powell; Leeds v Hall; Birmingham v Frisby [2011] UKSC 8 [This is probably a work in progress. There may be further additions and comments as people get a chance/have a brainwave. We've also ended up writing this as something of a tag...
The judgment in London Borough of Hounslow v Powell [2011] UKSC 8 (Aka, Powell, Hall and Frisby) is out. We have a detailed post coming shortly on this significant judgment on proportionality defences after Pinnock, but for now, the headlines are:...
...but what you do at the end of it that counts* FMB (EEA reg 6(2)(a) – ‘temporarily unable to work’) Uganda [2010] UKUT 447 (IAC) The Immigration and Asylum Tribunal (Upper Chamber) is not our usual stamping ground, but this is a decision which...
Hat tip to Christian at the Estates Gazette Law blog for this one. Crown Estates are to sell their London 'social' residential estates to Peabody Trust. It appears that they are now urgently seeking a tenant to bring forward a test case for a...
Anya Thompson v Mendip District Council, Taunton County Court 3 December 2010 [Unreported elsewhere]. This was the s.204 Housing Act 1996 appeal of a decision by Mendip DC that its offer of a two bedroom bungalow was an offer of suitable...
Sharon Horie v the United Kingdom - 31845/10 [2011] ECHR 289 Back at the end of 2009 we reported the Supreme Court case of Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs v Meier and another, which upheld the use of a quia timet...
The UKSC judgment in Birmingham CC v Frisby, Leeds CC v Hall, Hounslow LBC v Powell is due on Wednesday 23 February (court Room 1 at 9.45). The background in the CA and the foreground (Pinnock) have been discussed in previous posts (here and here)...
Vicky Pollard continues the Chief's west country theme, albeit somewhat stretched, to demonstrate the Con-Dem approach to consultation about their affordable rent tenancy regime (ie what consultation?). We now have more detail courtesy of the HCA...
Zafar v Goddard, Bristol County Court, 13 December 2010 Word reaches us from the West Country of a not uninteresting case heard in Bristol County Court before Christmas. Although we haven’t seen a transcript, we have been provide with an unapproved...
Manchester City Council v Pinnock [2010] UKSC 6 As if to confirm that housing law is, well, complicated, there is a coda to the Supreme Court decision in Manchester City Council v Pinnock, which has led to a supplementary judgment being handed...