A note on a couple of Upper Tribunal appeals of FTT determinations of rent - because there may be more of these applications and determinations when the Renters' Rights Bill comes into force... Kensington Avenue Ltd v Curlin (LANDLORD AND TENANT -...
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Leasehold notes – RTM notices and Rule 13 costs
A few quick notes on some leasehold related cases. A1 Properties (Sunderland) Ltd v Tudor Studios RTM Company Ltd (2024) UKSC 27 The Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 stipulates that a Notice of Claim for Right to Manage must be served on...
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What’s another day?
Moh & Ors v Rimal Properties Ltd (2024) UKUT 324 (LC) An appeal from two rent repayment order applications, in both of which the FTT had decided it had no jurisdiction to make a rent repayment order because the applications were made outside...
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Procedural tails and substantive dogs.
Hajan v Mayor & Burgesses of the London Borough of Brent (2024) EWCA Civ 1260 My very grateful thanks to William Heath and Frank Bowmaker of One Pump Court for the following note of the Court of Appeal judgment in these joined appeals. The...
Equality Act assessors and open advice
Laidley v Metropolitan Housing Trust Limited (2024) EWHC 2611 (Ch) (Copy of judgment. Not on Bailii or National Archives yet) This was the joined hearing of two appeals from a possession claim on grounds of anti social behaviour. Mr Laidley had an...
Unsuitable temporary accommodation and discrimination
Begum, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Tower Hamlets (2024) EWHC 2279 (Admin A brief note on this judicial review - brief in part because I'm not sure I actually grasp part of the challenge. Ms Begum had applied as homeless to Tower...
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Homelessness, disability and reasonable preference under allocation schemes.
RR, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Enfield (2024) EWHC 2501 (Admin) This was a judicial review challenge to LB Enfield's allocation policy for priority on the housing register, on the basis that it discrimated against disabled...
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Section 21 and Gas Safety Certificates – what’s in a name?
Barakzai and Barakzai v Fenech and Fenech (19th September 2024, District Judge Jenkins, Brentford County Court). (Unreported) Our thanks to Tom Morris of Landmark Chambers, Richard Mahal and Jacqueline Hovell of Duncan Lewis for the note of this...