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It takes a special kind of person who, faced with the multifaceted horrors of our disfunctional housing system, decides that what is really needed is to make it harder for some people to access social housing and to create new grounds or...
A couple of brief notes on two judicial reviews on housing, the Children Act 1989 and 'looked-after children'. BC, R (On the Application Of) v Surrey County Council (2023) EWHC 3209 (Admin) BC was a child who had been asked to leave the family home...
Saint Sepulchre, R (On the Application Of) v Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (2023) EWHC 2913 (Admin) A judicial review of RBKC's refusal to provide temporary accommodation pending section 202 review of the decision that Mr S was not...
Oday Yabari, R (on the application of) v The Lord Mayor and Citizens of the City of Westminster (2023) EWHC 185 (Admin) A judicial review of what was alleged to be Westminster's failure to meet its s.188(1) duty to secure suitable accommodation and...
A couple of quick notes on cases that have been sitting a browser tabs in my 'to do' window for far too long... Daff v Gyalui & Aiach-Cohen (2023) UKUT 134 (LC) Ms Daff had been ordered to pay an RRO for an unlicensed property to the tenants in...
Reading Borough Council v Holland (2023) EWHC 1902 (Ch) An appeal of a possession order made at first instance for Ms Holland's introductory tenancy of sheltered accommodation. Ms H was found by an expert report in the original proceedings to have...
Mary Ward Legal Centre We are recruiting for a full-time Housing Solicitor at Mary Ward Legal Centre. Mary Ward is a fabulous place to work. We have 35 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), TOIL and flexible working. Applicants who want...
Islam & Anor, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Haringey (2022) EWHC 3933 (Admin) This was a judicial review of Haringey's refusal to award Mr Islam Band A priority on its housing register, rather than Band B. Mr I and his household...
UO v London Borough of Redbridge (2023) EWHC 1355 (Admin) Ms UO and her 3 children, aged 11, 5 and 3, were homeless and had applied to LB Redbridge. The family had NASS accommodation in the Tottenham area since 2021, after NASS accommodation in...
Our grateful thanks to Eleri Griffiths and Martin Hodgson of One Pump Court for the following note of a judicial review of LB Harrow's failure to provide suitable accommodation under section 193 Housing Act 1996, following on from Elkundi (our...
Avon Ground Rents Limited v Canary Gateway (Block A) RTM Company Ltd (2023) EWCA Civ 616 This was the Court of Appeal judgment on a an appeal related to (but not from) the Upper Tribunal decision in Avon Ground Rents Ltd v Canary Gateway (Block A)...
Kaye v Lees (2023) EWHC 758 (KB) We saw an injunction being made to prevent Ms Lees from seeking a further mental health crisis moratorium here. In this judgment, Mr Kaye had sought an extension of that injunction. The Court refused to extend the...