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Mary Ward Legal Centre Head of Housing Are you lawyer with a passion for tackling the injustice of our housing system? Do you want to be part of an organisation that shares your values of fighting for access to justice and changing lives? Mary Ward...
Sorry for the silence, while the cases to write up have piled up. It has been a busy stretch in and out of work... More thorough write-ups of some cases will follow, but for now, a few brief notes on cases of interest and oddness. Thanks to Doughty...
First, an apology for yesterday's post/email. I paused to eat half way through writing, and on re-starting completely confused my Cs and Ls as to claimant/appellant and defendant/respondent. As a result it appeared that both parties had estranged...
Lumsden v Charles (2025) EWCC 7 A county court appeal in a tenancy deposit penalty claim, which is both a catalogue of 'you don't want to do it like that', and has a significant point on the operation of section 48 Landlord and Tenant Act 1987. Ms...
Yorkshire Housing Limited v Scott. County Court at Scarborough. 30 October 2024. (Not reported. Copy of the judgment is here.) A section 21 based possession claim for a 'starter tenancy' for the reason of anti social behaviour. It was defended on...
Shelter Solicitor - Plymouth Location: Plymouth Salary: Grade 6 - £42,697 per annum Full time: 37.5 per week Contract: Permanent Closing date: Monday 24th March 2025 at 11.30 pm Are you a Solicitor with experience of housing and homelessness law...
A few brief notes on judgments of interest. Brown v Ridley & Anor (Rev1) (2025) UKSC 7 The Supreme Court considered para 5(4) to Schedule 6 Land Registration Act 2002 on the requirements for an application for registered title through adverse...
Shelter Solicitor - Plymouth Location: Plymouth Salary: Grade 6 - £42,697 per annum Full time: 37.5 per week Contract: Permanent Closing date: Thursday 6th March 2025 at 11.30 pm Are you a Solicitor with experience of housing and homelessness law...
A couple of quick notes. Robert Jones (Trading as DAP Properties & Ors v Oliver Wood. County Court at Brentford. 20 February 2025. My grateful thanks to Peter Sibley of Landmark Chambers for a note of this case. This was a possession claim...
Uddin & Ors v Notting Hill Genesis (LANDLORD AND TENANT - SERVICE CHARGES - assured tenancies) (2025) UKUT 56 (LC) This was Notting Hill Genesis' appeal from a FTT decision that service charges that it had been charged by the freeholder and in...
Anti Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit Housing/Public Law Paralegal Job Title: Paralegal Job Term: Fixed term – 9 months (with possibility of an extension of a further 3 months) Location: London SE1 Hours: Part-time (21 hours per week)...
A couple of brief notes on things of interest. Lewis v Francis & Anor (2025) EWHC 17 (Admin) An appeal from the Magistrates Court on a costs award on a failed s.82 Environmental Protection Act 1990 private prosecution. The Magistrates Court had...