Bano, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Waltham Forest (2025) EWCA Civ 92 This was Waltham Forest's appeal of a judicial review (our note here) which had found that its housing duty to Ms Bano continued because WF had not made a vlid...
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The staggered arrival of Awaab’s Law
In a written statement, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government has announced the timescales for the implementation of Awaab's Law - i.e when the specific regulations will take effect. For social housing, this is:...
Homelessness – local connection and necessity
Hussaini v Islington London Borough Council (2025) EWCA Civ 22 Mr Hussaini was a refugee. He had been accommodated in Barking & Dagenham area. On grant of leave to remain, he applied as homeless to Islington. Islington decided he did not have a...
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Renewed homeless applications and new facts
Ivory, R (On the Application Of) v Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council (2025) EWCA Civ 21 A second appeal to the Court of Appeal from a judicial review of Welwyn Hatfield's rejection of a homelessness application by Ms Ivory, on the basis that it was...
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Roberts v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2025) EWHC 51 (Admin) A quick note on this judicial review of DWP policies on implementing 'diversionary' payments (direct payments of rent element of Universal Credit to landlords) and...
Service of documents – post and deemed service
D’Aubigny v Khan & Anor (2025) EWCA Civ 11 (Not on Bailii yet, a copy of the judgment is here.) We saw this case in the County Court. This is the Court of Appeal judgment. The central issue was whether service by post of a gas safety...
New year clear out
A pile of case notes that I've managed to do in the Betwixtmas/Merrineum, hopefully clearing the decks for the new year. It includes right to buy and the intention to return, FTT jurisdiction on rent increases, a council's unlawful interpretation...
Ealing comedy. Getting statutory nuisance very wrong
Ferko v Ealing Magistrates Court & Ors (2024) EWHC 2592 (Admin) This was an appeal by case stated to the High Court from a decision of Ealing Magistrates Court on a statutory nuisance/section 82 Environmental Protection Act 1990 prosecution. It...
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Orders for forced entry after injunction
Sovereign Housing Association Limited v Hall. Bristol County Court. 10 July 2024 (Unreported. A copy of the judgment is here.) This was a County Court appeal from a first instance decision by a District Judge that the Court did not have...