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Hall & Ors v Mayor of London (On Behalf of the Greater London Authority) [2010] EWCA Civ 817 (16 July 2010) The case report on the appeal between the Mayor of London and various occupiers of Parliament Square Gardens has appeared on BAILII. For...
We welcome comments on our posts. Our readers and commenters are usually a hugely well informed, knowledgeable, witty and interesting group of people. However, there has been an increase in the number of 'post and run' commenters just trying to get...
Free Housing Law conference for the ʻnot for profitʼ sector Arden Chambers is delighted to invite those working in the ʻnot for profitʼ sector to a free one day housing law conference on Thursday September 9th , 2010. This conference will be...
The results of the Social Welfare Law and combined Housing/Family contract bids are slowly coming through. I am mindful that as I write this, firms/organisations in specific areas have not yet been informed whether they have a contract and if so...
Despite most of our concerned glances at the various mortgage rescue schemes set up by the New Labour government (see NL's review of Darling's Keynesian Splurge), Pickles' decision to review those schemes announced pretty much as soon as he began...
Berrisford v Mexfield Housing Co-Operative Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 811 We reported on the High Court appeal in this case here. By the time it reached the Court of Appeal it had turned into quite a different case altogether. At the High Court, Ms...
In R(C) v Nottingham City Council [2010] EWCA Civ 790 (available through the Chief's mystical powers and Lawtel [and now also on BAILII]), the Court of Appeal was faced with a substantive issue in relation to the children leaving care provisions of...
Wright v Wright [2010] EWHC 1808 (Ch) is a near perfect example of a fundamental principle of property law, which we tutors seek to ingrain into our students (mostly, it must be said, with limited success, having looked at hundreds of exam...
Horridge (t/a Newford Parts Centre) v Downshire House (Reproductions) Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 777 Continuing a brace of nuisance cases, we have this appeal from a split trial on liability on a nuisance claim. The properties involved are both commercial...
The extent to which a landlord can be liable for the acts of his tenants is a vexed topic, which we've discussed on a number of occasions before. The cases rather lean against liability. It is, therefore, very interesting to find Mackay J allowing...
Are you using Internet Explorer 6 to look at this site? Apparently about 22% of you are. (If you are not sure, click on 'help' in the menu, then 'About Internet Explorer', Does it say 'version 6.xxxx'. There you go). If you are using Explorer 6,...
Poplar Housing and Regeneration Community Housing Association Limited (Poplar Harca) v Stephen Howe [2010] EWHC 1745 (QB) When we reported on Lana Wilson v London Borough of Harrow [2010] EWHC 1574 (QB) two weeks ago, we noted that another...