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By s.87, Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, the Secretary of State has power to approve codes of practice in relation to the management of residential long leasehold blocks. Currently, he has approved (for non-retirement properties)...
Barney v Eastern Green Ltd [2013] UKUT 331 (LC) is a helpful little reminder of the (limited) power of the LVT (FTT(PC)) to review apportionment issues in service charges. In the present case, the landlord had (pursuant to a term in the lease) reapportioned...
Keeney Construction Ltd v Dr Zoe Brooke and others [2013] UKUT 329 (LC) is an odd little case (an opening phrase I tend to use a lot when talking about UT appeals). The substantive issue concerned a lease variation application under s.35, Landlord and Tenant...
We’ve all been there. Perhaps more frequently, litigants in person have been there (although hopefully not the same LiP over and over again). A warrant for possession is due to be executed the next day. It may even be the same day. The occupier has applied...
The headline here, as has been widely tweeted/flashed etc, is that the challenge to the bedroom tax contained in Regulation B13, Housing Benefit Regulations (both generically and specifically in relation to households with a disabled person) was unsuccessful...
There are those who say that service charges are a dry subject. To them I say, welcome to Wallace-Jarvis v (1) Optima (Cambridge) Ltd (2) Khazai [2013] UKUT 328 (LC). The leaseholders at a development were concerned that their service charges were too high...
BDW Trading Ltd v South Anglia Housing Ltd [2013] EWHC B10 (Ch) is important and deserves much wider coverage than it has otherwise got. Before turning to the facts, lets just remind ourselves of the provisons of ss 20, 20ZA, Landlord and Tenant Act 1985. In...
I've never liked the Gower. I recognise that, objectively, it's quite beautiful, but it was ruined for me by a camping holiday as a child. It was cold and wet. The rain was almost biblical in volume. There was nothing to do. And I ran out of books to read....
The questions raised about how the Coalition were going to implement Cameron's proposal that private landlords should check the immigration status of their future occupiers have now been answered in part by the Home Office Consultation Paper, Tackling...
The Law Commission is currently consulting on what projects it might take on under its next law reform programme. It has a few specific suggestions in relation to landlord and tenant law and is seeking evidence (particularly about how far they have...
Last Thursday night, BBC 1 broadcast Meet the Landlords. It's still available on Iplayer, here. It just confirms my view that - save for limited circumstances - one person should not be allowed to own the home of another. Others may have different reactions...
Allocations under Pt.6, 1996 Act. A big topic. A sexy topic. A true behemoth of a topic. And, for reasons that aren't entirely clear to me, a topic that isn't giving us very many cases these days. Which is odd, given the ever-growing tendency by local...