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I managed to miss an anniversary, a bit like my own birthdays these days. Nearly Legal was two years old on the first of June. Two years! That is positively middle aged in internet years, fittingly making the blog roughly as old as I am. It has...
The world domination plan is on schedule as another housing law blog starts up... A warm welcome to 'The snail in that legal bottle', by Ethan, a 'housing sector legal person'. Unfortunately, by way of greeting I popped over late last night and...
By an unexpected route, the following landed in my inbox. I haven't heard anything about this, nor had some friends in Criminal so this may be news. What is clear is that the Legal Services Commission are seeking to introduce competence assessments...
London Borough of Lambeth v Johnston [2008] EWCA Civ 690 is an appeal to the Court of Appeal from a County Court s.204 appeal. The brief facts - the Claimant applied to Lambeth as homeless in September 2004. He told the officer he had an alcohol...
I have ignored this question, then I have mocked it. But dammit, the google searches for 'what is Anor in legal terms', or variants thereof, keep flooding in. They are now up to about 15 or more a week. So I give in. Clearly absolutely nobody is...
C, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Lambeth [2008] EWHC 1230 (Admin) is, in the end, mainly concerned with education, but there is quite a bit of interest to housing people. The issue was the duties owed to the Claimant under s.23 and...
Hanoman v London Borough of Southwark [2008] EWCA Civ 624 Where a local authority landlord has failed to respond to a tenant's notice in time under the Right to Buy procedure, the tenant can serve an 'operative notice of delay' under s.153A(5)...
Jones v London Borough of Merton [2008] EWCA Civ 660 addresses whether a tolerated trespasser's liability to pay mesne profits ends when they leave the property or when they notify the former landlord that they have left. Ordinary trespassers are...
As ever, housing cases come in a flood after a drought. Jones v London Borough of Merton [2008] EWCA Civ 660 on when liability for mesne profits ends after the tolerated trespasser leaves a property. Hanoman v London Borough of Southwark [2008]...
The family firm. It has such a reassuring sound, redolent of values of client care handed down through the generations, and the energy of youth brought under the careful supervision of wisdom. The very best traditions of the local small firm, a...
Ahad v London Borough of Tower Hamlets [2008] EWCA Civ 606 was an application for permission to appeal from a s.204 appeal concerning a refusal of an offer of permanent accommodation. Tower Hamlets had discharged duty on the basis that the...
I have now got hold of the judgment in X v Hounslow [2008] All ER 337 (May) (thanks to assorted helpful sprites). [Edit 23/06/08 - now up on Bailii]. Previous posts on this one are here and here - this was the case that apparently instituted a...