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My word, what a fountain of press releases you have been lately. Quite takes me back to the heady days of John Healey. But it is this press release I want to talk about, the ‘Neighbours from Hell’ one. You announce that you: will introduce a new...
SL, R (on the application of) v City of Westminster Council [2010] EWHC 3182 (Admin) A rolled up permission and substantive judicial review hearing on the issue of whether the local authority owed a duty under s.21 National Assistance Act 1948 (as...
Hussain v London Borough of Hounslow [2010] EW Misc 15 (CC) (01 December 2010) Not sure why this one wasn’t written up in November. I thought we’d covered it, but apparently not. It is worth a look not just on the specific issues but as the...
Part 1 of cases - mainly county court - that we have missed or not heard of during 2010. With our grateful thanks to Beatrice Prevatt of Garden Court for bringing these to our notice in her disrepair update at the HLPA conference: Shazad v Khan....
To begin by looking backwards, the numbers for Nearly Legal in 2010 were: Posts: 281 (a post every 1.3 days on average) Average page views per day*: 613 Busiest day for page views: 1,737 (3 November) Average page views per month*: 19,995 Highest...
A brief trip to the Emerald City, or rather Reading, where the Borough Council may have established a record for a fine for breaches of The Management of Houses in Multiple Occupation (England) Regulations 2006 and the Housing Act 2004 Section 11....
Last year I blogged about Mrs Clift winning a claim for defamation against Slough Borough Council. The facts are in the earlier post. Slough's appeal was rejected by the Court of Appeal in Clift v Slough Borough Council [2010] EWCA Civ 1171. While...
McHale v Cadogan [2010] EWCA Civ 1471 is turning into a bit of a Jarndyce v Jarndyce. We noted the first part of the Court of Appeal decision earlier in the year here and ended it by saying: "The appeal also raised another issue, namely whether the...
... a case about service charges, balancing payments, LVT procedure and precedent. In Holding and Management (Solitaire) Ltd v Sherwin [2010] UKUT 412 (LC), the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) had to grapple with s.20B, Landlord and Tenant Act 1985....
The MoJ has published the list of county courts that will be closed in England and Wales. The BBC has the full list here (it includes county courts and magistrates' courts). The government claims that 85% of people will still be within 1 hr (by...
The Localism Bill was published yesterday. I suppose it might be seen as an exciting time for the housing sector - somebody described it as a potential "paradigm shift" at an event I was at last week - but, whether or not that is correct (and it...
Agnes Ofulue v the United Kingdom Application no. 52512/09 ECtHR This admissibility hearing was the culmination of a long, long story. We reported the Court of Appeal judgment and the House of Lords judgments. The very abbreviated history was that...