It's not that we've stopped posting lately, it's just that there has been nothing to write about. There is lots to come - Weaver v L&Q in the Court of Appeal, Moran v Manchester, Aweys v Birmingham in the Lords (all heard, I believe, and judgments...
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On the Naughty Step- allegedly
The CAB in Wales appears to have branched out into inadvertent wealth re-distribution, allegedly by way and end of Dale and Sally Foster now on trial at Swansea County Court. The Fosters ran the CAB office at Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, together....
Bits from LAG and nuisance & Art 8
There are several cases in the latest LAG updates that we haven't covered and that are interesting. Thanks as ever to Jan Luba QC and HHJ Nic Madge for the LAG reports. There are two brief notes on County Court cases and a more sizeable one on...
By way of apology…
There will be some housing law along in a minute, but I've had an email request that prompts a bit of an apology. How, in the employment law blog links, could I have overlooked Daniel Barnett's blog. Daniel Barnett has a valid claim to be one of...
Duty to provide rent-free accommodation?
R (Best) v Oxford City Council [2009] EWHC 608 (Admin), [2009] All ER (D) 252, noted on this week's Garden Court Housing Law Bulletin, but not yet on BAILII. This is a judicial review that essentially turned on whether a local housing authority...
Disclaimer, assignment and guarantee
In Shaw v Doleman[2009] EWCA Civ 279 the Court of Appeal confirmed the view taken by some writers as to the effect of the disclaimer of an assigned lease on the obligations of a guarantor. At the same time it highlights that wording common in...
The end of the road
X v LB Hounslow [2009] EWCA Civ 286. When news of X first reached the NL team, the near unanimous response was one of pleasure at the result. Once we obtained a transcript and saw the reasoning of the trial judge, it became clear not only that an...
Public Law Defence – an arguable case
McGlynn v Welwyn Hatfield District Council [2009] EWCA Civ 285 was an appeal of a summary possession that had been stayed pending Doherty in the Lords. Mr McGlynn was granted a non-secure tenancy by Welwyn in 2000, in pursuance of homelessness...
An inconvenient problem
There were lots of good intentions behind the SI making clear that 16/17 year olds are in priority need (The Homelessness (Priority Need for Accommodation) (England) Order 2002 (SI 2002 /2051)). But as a few have pointed out in recent years, there...
Southwark v Austin: Request for information
We've been contacted by the solicitor for Mr Austin of Southwark v Austin. There is to be an application for permission to go to the House of Lords (or Supreme Court? depending on timing, I suppose). As part of this, they're looking for indicators...
Kay in the ECtHR
The Statement of Facts, together with the Question posed by the ECtHR is now online.
New search tools
The previous live search form that sat in the column to the right was getting a little creaky. The archives on this site are quite large now and it just wasn't returning the results properly, and/or there were too many for it to handle adequately....