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Ayinla v London Borough of Newham. Central London County Court. 29 September 2023 (copy of judgment) Our thanks to Haroon Sarwar of TV Edwards for the judgment in this section 204 appeal. The key issue was whether LB Newham had met the requirements of...
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 breach of...
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 were...
Katie-Leigh Webb-Harnden v London Borough of Waltham Forest (2023) EWCA Civ 992 This was the second appeal from a review decision upholding the suitability of an offer of a private sector tenancy in Walsall in discharge of Waltham Forest's s.193 duty to Ms...
E v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. 9 December 2022. Central London County Court (Unreported - Anonymised at claimant's request) ) This is a s.204 appeal judgment that I have been sitting on for an inexcusably long time, ever since I was kindly sent...
Hodge v Folkestone and Hythe District Council (2023) EWCA Civ 896 A second appeal to the Court of Appeal on Folkestone's decision that Ms Hodge as intentionally homeless because she had left a room in a hostel run by a charity that she was occupying under...
Our grateful thanks to Daniel Grütters of One Pump Court for the following note and copy of the judgment in a section 204 appeal on the suitability of temporary accommodation. Uddin v Hackney LBC (2023) J40CL175 (unreported, we've seen the judgment.) Case...
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 Croydon and...
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 note) and...
Following on from yesterday (17 May) publication of the Renters (Reform) Bill and Part 1 of my overview of what the Bill does, onwards to the rest of it... Pets! There has been a lot of fuss about this, but as Tessa Shepperson has sagely observed, it doesn't...
Jaberi, R (On the Application Of) v City of Westminster (Re Housing Act 1996) (2023) EWHC 1045 (Admin) A judicial review on three grounds: i) Breach of section 193(2) Housing Act 1996 duty to secure suitable accommodation; ii) The Westminster's allocation...
Querino v Cambridge City Council. County Court at Cambridge, 29 March 2023 Continuing the trend (of which I wholeheartedly approve) of people sending me notes of judgments, the following is a note of a s.204 appeal of a suitability review decision from Toby...