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LB Croydon v Shanahan [2010] EWCA Crim 98 Ms Shanahan was tried on three offences under section 111A(1A) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992. These were: Count 1 between 24 June 2004 and 12 December 2006, she dishonestly failed to notify the...
The Lands Tribunal has ruled on a restrictive covenants issue.
Draycott & Draycott -v- Hannells Letting Limited [2010] EWHC 217 (QB) This is the first High Court judgment on the tenancy deposit scheme element of the Housing Act 2004 and thus the first that is binding on all lower (County) Courts. This is therefore a...
Readers with a long memory (relative to the general standards of the 21st century) will recall that there was a finding in Connors v UK (2004) that the law that meant that travellers on Local Authority sites could be evicted without the court overseeing...
In Barber v Croydon LBC [2010] EWCA Civ 51, the Court of Appeal found Croydon's decision to pursue possession proceedings of a non-secure tenancy occupied by Mr Barber Wednesbury unreasonable, being by my estimation the third such successful use of a gateway...
The Supreme Court has refused permission to appeal in Birmingham City Council v Qasim et al (our notes on the Court of Appeal and county court decisions are here and here, respectively). As our friends at the UKSC blog previously noted, it would be helpful...
Lynch v Kirby, QBD, 28.1.10 before Nicola Davies QC sitting as a Deputy Judge is - according to Casetrack - in the process of being written up. I became aware of it as a (very) short note on the Garden Court bulletin last Monday. I doubt that it'll set the...
.... or something to that effect, is what I imagine HHJ Purle QC said when he got the papers in Pick (Trustee in bankruptcy of Sharon Sumpter) v Sharon Sumpter & George Sumpter, Chancery Division, 3.2.10 - Lawtel note only The claimant, as trustee in...
Port of London Authority v Ashmore [2010] EWCA Civ 30 is a really odd decision by the Court of Appeal to the extent I had to read it through carefully twice to be sure I understood its effect. I am still not sure that I do. You may remember that we reported...
R(Bauer-Czarmonski) v Ealing LBC [2010] EWHC 130 (Admin) is a kind of a classic post-Ahmad decision in that, rather than being a challenge to the CBL Locata scheme as a whole, it relates to the way in which Mr Bauer-Czarnomski's application was treated by...
R(Savage) v LB Hillingdon [2009] EWHC Admin 88 [not on Bailii yet, available on Lawtel]. Ms S applied to Hillingdon Council as homeless following a possession order on her private rented accommodation on grounds of rent areas. Hillingdon provided temporary...
*Not really. The current housing minister, who holds the current record for the number of times a housing minister's name can be mentioned in a press release, has announced forthcoming legislation, in response to the Rugg report. More details here [link to...