This is a note of a county court appeal on the issue of whether Section 7 Interpretation Act 1978 applied to the prescribed documents required to be given to the tenant before service of a section 21 notice - EPC, GSC, How to Rent Guide. This...
All the blog posts, most recent first
Not at home alone, but intending to return
Weintraub v London Borough of Hackney (2024) EWHC 845 (Ch) An appeal of the dismissal of a claim for a declaration that Rabbi Weintraub had the right to buy, which was dismissed on the basis that he was not occupying the property as his only or...
Job ads – Suffolk, Coventry/Birmingham, North West Wales
Suffolk Law Centre Housing Solicitor / Legal Aid Supervisor Salary: £30,000 - £37,000 per annum (dependent on experience) Permanent Contract Full Time (37 hours per week) *No Application Deadline – Open-Ended Job Advert* This is an exciting...
Universal Credit, transitional protection and temporary accommodation
Our grateful thanks to Alexa Thompson, a pupil barrister at Garden Court North for this note on an Upper Tribunal benefits appeal which may be of significance for many people when they leave temporary or supported accommodation. Thanks also to Tom...
Council managing its premises is not providing a service for Equality Act 2010 purposes.
FG, R (On the Application Of) v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (2024) EWHC 780 (Admin) This was a judicial review of RBKC, asserting discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 in RBKC's failure to make physical adaptations to a flat...
Job Ad – Birmingham
The Community Law Partnership Housing Solicitor/Caseworker to join our busy and friendly team in our Birmingham City Centre office. Full or part time. Hybrid working available. Work involves legally aided litigation in High Court (JR) and County...
Reforming Renters (Reform) Bill – ‘pragmatic’ intrusiveness
The row about the apparent govt amendments to the Renters (Reform) Bill goes on, principally about the proposed initial 6 month term in which the tenant could not give notice (although also, obviously, about the unspecified delay in introduction of...
The Lowe down.
Lowe v Governors of Sutton's Hospital In Charterhouse (2024) EWHC 646 (Ch) A High Court appeal of a first instance county court judgment by HHJ Luba KC, which we noted here. The claim was for deposit penalties for failure to provide the prescribed...
Job Ads – Cardiff & Rhyl
Shelter Cymru Housing Law Caseworkers (Gwent) Cardiff office 35 hours per week - £26,862 per annum 17.5 hours per week - £13,431 per annum An exciting opportunity has now arisen at Shelter Cymru for two Housing Law Caseworkers to join our...
News bits – Renters (Reform) Bill ‘reformed’, HHJ Luba KC retirement.
The disappearance of the Renters (Reform) Bill from the parliamentary timetable has been the subject of much speculation, with reports of it being held hostage by Tory backbenchers demanding landlord friendly changes, and the prospect of the Bill...
Unfitness for human habitation quantum – 100% again
Mason v 1) Olivera and 2) Santana, Claim no: K2PP0132 (15th December 2023, County Court at Clerkenwell and Shoreditch) Our grateful thanks to Garden Court Chambers for details of this judgment on a housing conditions counterclaim to a claim for...
Job ads – Swansea and Cardiff
Shelter Cymru SC715 Team Leader (Cardiff, Vale and Valleys) Cardiff Office 35 hours per week £30,660 per annum An exciting opportunity has now arisen within our Housing Services team in South Wales for a Team Leader. The post holder will have...