A few notes on events and a couple of RRO cases. Landlord Law, run by Tessa Shepperson, has achieved the remarkable feat of passing its 20th anniversary. That is really quite something for an online service - the online landscape was very different...
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Property Guardian firms, HMOs, licences, penalties and RROs – it is all here
It turns out that at more or less the same time as Global 100 were pursuing their appeal in the Court of Appeal with regard to their possession claim against a guardian who had been occupying a property owned by NHS Property Services Ltd (our note...
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Leasehold assortment
Some quick notes on leasehold related cases. Termhouse (Clarendon Court) Management Ltd v Al-Balhaa (2021) EWCA Civ 1881 The First Tier Tribunal has no power to enforce its decisions. This has to be done via the County Court. In some circumstances...
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No covering this up
As we reach the end of a truly awful week for the government* the National Audit Office has decided to get in on the act. The Regulation of Private Renting report is the equivalent of a (fully deserved) kicking for the government and its approach...
The appearance of a substantial defence in possession claims, and property guardians and possession.
Global 100 Ltd v Laleva (2021) EWCA Civ 1835 There is a hell of a lot packed into one appeal here, so I'll try to be brief. This was Global 100's appeal of a first instance appeal (our note here) in which HHJ Luba QC had held that the first...
Court of Appeal on time of demands and legal costs in service charges
Kensquare Ltd v Boakye (2021) EWCA Civ 1725 A second appeal to the Court of Appeal from the Upper Tribunal on a service charge dispute - a decision we briefly noted as Kensquare Ltd v Adwoa & Anor here. There were two main issues, both of some...
Not unaware enough – intentional homelessness in the Court of Appeal
Ciftci v London Borough of Haringey (2021) EWA Civ 1772 A second appeal to the Court of Appeal on Haringey's decision that Ms Ciftci was intentionally homeless. Ms C lived in Switzerland, where she had a rented flat, which was suitable and...
Davidoffed.
Since our post on the FTT decision in Maharaj & Lo Porto v Richard Davidoff (Tribunal appointed manager) LON/00AL/LSC/2020/0111, there have been some developments with regard to Richard Davidoff and his company ABC Block Management. First, ABC...
Recitation is not application
SR v Lambeth London Borough Council, County Court at Central London, 21st October 2021 H40CL201 – HHJ Roberts (unreported elsewhere) Our thanks to Justine Compton of Garden Court Chambers for the following note of a section 204 appeal judgment on a...