The ECHR has announced that Kay v UK is being handed down at 11am (Strasbourg time) tomorrow (Tuesday, September 21, 2010).
Kay v UK: coming soon
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Housing law – All
The bottled water of principle
There is an interesting interview with Baroness Hale of the Supreme Court on the UKSC blog, (also reposted on the Guardian Law site, which has been really rather good since launch). It is well worth a read, not only for Lady Hale fighting for the separation...
When more means less
Green v Sinclair Investments Limited Clerkenwell and Shoreditch County Court. 11 June 2010 This is a County Court and non-binding tenancy deposit case reported in September 2010 Legal Action 'Recent Developments'. But it is interesting and harks back to a...
25 years of ‘Recent Developments in Housing Law’
I really couldn't let this one pass by without adding my congratulations. Jan Luba QC and HHJ Nic Madge have been producing the 'Recent Developments in Housing Law' in Legal Action for 25 years as of this month, quarterly from 1985 to 1988, then in the...
Oppression, Maladministration and Re-entry
Hammersmith & Fulham LBC v Pill, West London County Court 26 May 2010 With grateful thanks to the Legal Action Housing Updates (on which more shortly). Ms Pill was Hammersmith & Fulham's secure tenant. She lived with her two children. There had been a...
Ain’t nothing like the real thing
Vickers v Jackson [2010] EWHC 2213 (Ch) A bit off our usual patch this one, but not too far and frankly I couldn't resist. Not least because I get to use the word 'Snook' without people pointing at me and laughing. Mr Vickers brought a claim in the High...
HMO Planning Relaxation
We have previously posted on the introduction of the requirement for planning consent for Houses in Multiple Occupation, introduced by the outgoing Labour government as one of their last acts. This is now set to be undone with the laying before Parliament of...
New duty advice scheme at the London LVT
Yesterday the Leasehold Advisory Service (LEASE) announced in a press release that it would be operating a morning duty advice scheme at the London offices of the LVT from 21 September 2010. This news follows hot foot on the announcement that from 16...
On the CLP judicial review…
People may recall that the Community Law Partnership's judicial review of the LSC was listed for an adjourned hearing on 8 September. We have had the following statement from CLP which is given as is. We've been asked to note that CLP will not be making any...
A broken engagement
Dibble v Pfluger [2010] EWCA Civ 1005 concerns an appeal in a joint property case, largely decided on its facts. It has one interesting point of note for anyone who practices in this field: the couples were engaged to be married for much of the period of...
Unhappiness in the (e)state of Belgravia
Donath v Trustees of the Second Duke of Westminster Will Trust [PDF] is a first instance decision of the LVT. We do not normally reports such things but it concerns an application to vary an old-style estate management scheme. So rarely does one see estate...
Period? Which Period?
Suvini v Anderson, Staines County Court, 13 August 2010 It is well known that notices under section 21(4)(a) of the Housing Act 1988 must give notice to a tenant that "after a date specified ... being the last day of a period of the tenancy ... possession of...