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A couple of First Tier Tribunal decisions to add to the growing pile of findings that short let use is in breach of lease. City of Westminster v Madhukar Kothari LON/00BK/LBC/2019/0087 Mr Kothari had a right to buy lease of a City of Westminster flat. The...
Strezovski and others v North Macedonia (App. Nos. 14460/16 and others) might not seem immediately relevant to readers. After all, housing law in North Macedonia is, I think we can safely say, quite different to England or Wales. But district heating systems...
Following on from yesterday's post by J on the CMA report (with its approach to the 'AST Trap') and from someone helpfully pointing out something that should have been completely obvious to me in the first place, I've re-written my old post on the leasehold...
Inclusion Housing Community Interest Company v Regulator of Social Housing [2020] EWHC 346 (Admin) I think this is the first judicial review of a regulatory decision by the Regulator of Social Housing and whilst, ultimately, the result is a fairly standard...
We don't often run 'think-pieces' (this may be too generous a description), at least not when unattached to new case law, but the ongoing transformation of 'disrepair' into 'housing conditions' claims has got me (and I know others who write here) thinking...
38/41 CHG Residents Company Limited v Hyslop (LANDLORD AND TENANT - SERVICE CHARGES) (2020) UKUT 21 (LC) A quick note on a Upper Tribunal (LC) appeal concerning whether services charge demands had been delivered. At first instance, the FTT had reached a...
Fearn & Ors v The Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery (2020) EWCA Civ 104 This is the latest round of what is becoming the most heavily litigated stretch of air space in London, assorted leaseholders of Neo Bankside against the Tate Modern, over...
Holding And Management (Solitaire) Ltd v Miller (LANDLORD AND TENANT - SERVICE CHARGES) (2019) UKUT 402 (LC) An Upper Tribunal appeal decision where just about everything that could have been wrong about the first instance First Tier Tribunal decision was....
First, a quick erratum to yesterday's post on upcoming housing law. The post had wrongly stated that the 1 June 2020 Tenant Fees Act changes would mean repaying deposits of over five weeks rent on pre 1 June 2019 tenancies. That is not the case, so long as...
2020 then. The years keep coming, with uncaring relentlessness. Still, putting a brave face on it, I shall combine the roles of soothsayer and almanac for what is likely to be a busy year for housing law. First, the things that we know will happen and when....
John Romans Park Homes Ltd v Mr Hancock, Mrs Hancock (02 Dec 19, unreported). Our grateful thanks to Amanda Gourlay for her note on this appeal. This matter concerned the Mobile Homes Act 1983, but the point is of far broader application. The case was a...
(NB photo is of an entirely unrelated building.) A constant issue in disrepair (at least until the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 for tenancies) and in leasehold major works charges matters has been the difficulties of liability for inherent...