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Goremsandu, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Harrow [2010] EWHC 1873 (Admin) As many of you will know the definition of an HMO for the purposes of Council Tax is totally different from that used in the Housing Act 2004 (and in relation to...
We've been told that on 29 July 2010, the tenant appellant in Godfrey v A2 Dominion North Ltd was granted permission to appeal. Quite what permission has been given is less clear - our source says Court of Appeal, but the case was elsewhere listed as being...
An interesting argument emerged before the Court of Appeal in Lekpo-Bozua v Hackney LBC (SoS for Communities and Local Government joined as interested party) [2010] EWCA Civ 909. The issue arose around the difference between, on the one hand, an...
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council v Hickin [2010] EWCA Civ 868 Where there are two joint tenants of a secure tenancy, of whom one has left and no longer occupies the property, and the remaining tenant in occupation dies, can that tenant's adult child...
In two joined appeals to the Lands Chamber of the Upper Tribunal brought by Southern Housing Group Ltd and Family Housing Association (Wales) Ltd ([2010] UKUT 237 (LC) - not yet available via the tribunal's website or on bailii), the tribunal considered...
As we've previously reported, the National Assembly for Wales has been seeking legislative competence over social housing and gypsy and traveller law. The Legislative Competence Order has now been approved and is available here. It came into force on July...
Hall & Ors v Mayor of London (On Behalf of the Greater London Authority) [2010] EWCA Civ 817 (16 July 2010) The case report on the appeal between the Mayor of London and various occupiers of Parliament Square Gardens has appeared on BAILII. For those who...
Free Housing Law conference for the ʻnot for profitʼ sector Arden Chambers is delighted to invite those working in the ʻnot for profitʼ sector to a free one day housing law conference on Thursday September 9th , 2010. This conference will be eligible for 5...
Despite most of our concerned glances at the various mortgage rescue schemes set up by the New Labour government (see NL's review of Darling's Keynesian Splurge), Pickles' decision to review those schemes announced pretty much as soon as he began to warm his...
Berrisford v Mexfield Housing Co-Operative Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 811 We reported on the High Court appeal in this case here. By the time it reached the Court of Appeal it had turned into quite a different case altogether. At the High Court, Ms Berrisford was...
In R(C) v Nottingham City Council [2010] EWCA Civ 790 (available through the Chief's mystical powers and Lawtel [and now also on BAILII]), the Court of Appeal was faced with a substantive issue in relation to the children leaving care provisions of the...
Wright v Wright [2010] EWHC 1808 (Ch) is a near perfect example of a fundamental principle of property law, which we tutors seek to ingrain into our students (mostly, it must be said, with limited success, having looked at hundreds of exam scripts), that...