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In the end, I couldn't resist writing this one up from the report in January 09's LAG updates. It is a very late report and only a County Court decision, but is a) just too topical for these insolvent times and b) vaguely technically interesting. Lambeth LBC...
Birmingham City Council v Forde [2009] EWHC 12 (QB) was the High Court hearing of Birmingham's appeal from the High Court (Costs) case we reported on in August last year. In short, the appeal was dismissed, and the judgment of the Costs Judge upheld, but in...
Another in Nearly Legal's sporadic attempts at being helpful to passing internet searchers. All the questions are genuine searches from the logs, including the rather puzzling 'crinoline flint', which perhaps gives more insight into the searcher than one...
The Hlpa meeting tonight (17/9/08) was a particularly interesting one, on the topic of disrepair. Talks were from Mel Cairns, Andrew Brookes of Anthony Gold and Marina Sergides of Garden Court. Among the end of meeting news items were: The current intent is...
Forde v Birmingham City Council [2008] EWHC 90105 (Costs) In brief, where a firm had asked a client to sign a second CFA for a disrepair claim, at a time when it appeared that the first CFA might be found unenforceable, and the second CFA provided for a...
Onwuama v Ealing LBC [2008] EWHC 1704 (QB). The Claimant made a claim for s.11 disrepair (in person), alleging dampness and electrical problems. No expert evidence was put forward as to the cause of dampness. The claim largely failed as the Judge found the...
Birmingham City Council v Lee [2008] EWCA Civ 891 concerns claimant's costs incurred while following the disrepair pre-action protocol. It is not uncommon for a landlord to do repairs after an early notification letter, or letter of claim, but pre issue (not...
There were a couple of cases mentioned in the June issue Legal Action that are worth a consideration when looking at quantum in illegal eviction cases, and also to some extent in disrepair cases. Legal Action has the full details, but in brief... Addison v...
More brief but hopefully helpful replies to the civil litigation and housing questions that brought searchers to Nearly Legal. As ever, nothing of what follows should be taken as legal advice and no action should be taken without obtaining full legal advice....
Via Garden Court's 10 March 2008 bulletin. Birmingham (yes them again) have had their tenancy agreement found to be misleading by the Ombudsman in terms of their liability for making good damage resulting from repairs. Homeless figures are out for the last...
For some of us internet old timers, who were on usenet before the WWW existed and were hand coding websites in the mid 1990s, it is still a surprise how people treat search engines as something to put a fully fledged question into. January has been a bumper...
The Social Housing Law Association has released a 'Policy Statement' on the need for legal aid reform. Briefly, they claim that far too many weak cases are brought against social landlords by legally aided tenants and that the subsequent litigation costs to...