The media are today (Sunday 13.3.22) reporting that the government are going to launch an extra-statutory scheme on Monday whereby people will be able to offer accommodation to Ukranians fleeing the invasion. Details are sketchy, but the main points seem to...
Property Guardians and HMOs – they are, you know.
Global 100 Ltd v Jimenez & Ors (HOUSING - HOUSE IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATION - RENT REPAYMENT ORDER - "property guardians") (2022) UKUT 50 (LC) In which Global 100, flushed by their win in the Court of Appeal in Global 100 Ltd v Laleva (2021) EWCA Civ 1835...
Excluded grounds of possession and subsequent grounds
Poplar HARCA v Kerr. Clerkenwell & Shoreditch County Court. February 2022. DJ Bell (Unreported, we've seen a note of extempore judgment.) Our thanks to Daniel Skinner for the note of judgment in this case, which is of interest on the argument that the...
Homelessness – second applications and new facts threshold.
Minott v Cambridge City Council (2022) EWCA Civ 159 This was Mr Minott's appeal from a judicial review that upheld Cambridge's refusal to accept a second homeless application. Our note on the JR decision is here. In short, Mr M had applied to Cambridge as...
This is not my beautiful house
Rasool v Paddington Company One Ltd (2021) EWHC 3633 (QB) A combined hearing of a return date on an ex parte interim junction for re-entry, and a claim for possession by the property owner against a trespasser. A somewhat unusual combination, you might...
Notes (various)
As I stagger towards writing up some case law at the weekend, some notes on things that have happened. The Solicitors Regulation Authority published a Guidance note - "Advising on leasehold provisions including ground rent clauses". This covers a lot of the...
Suitability and affordability – Court of Appeal on assessing affordability
Paley v London Borough of Waltham Forest (2022) EWCA Civ 112 This was a second appeal to the Court of Appeal on the issue of whether Waltham Forest had taken to correct approach to assessing the affordability of an offer of a private tenancy in Stoke on...
No relief, no unjust enrichment.
Golding v Martin (2022) EW Misc 2 (CC) We first saw this forfeiture case when it went to the Court of Appeal (our note). Briefly, Ms Martin had bought a leasehold flat, and indeed extended the lease. In 2003, she went to live in Majorca. She left no...
Company landlords and signing notices
Northwood (Solihull) Ltd v Fearn & Ors (2022) EWCA Civ 40 This was a second appeal on the issue of the signing of tenancy deposit prescribed information certificates and section 8 notices by company landlords. The first appeal (our note here) had held...
R(ZLL) v SSHCLG: Everyone In a “call to action” not a policy
In this case, Fordham J scrutinised the nature of "Everyone In" and analysed whether it was a "policy", such as to impose public law duties on the Secretary of State on its curtailment. The judgment (2022) EWHC 85 (Admin) contains a detailed discussion of...
RROs, company directors and reasonable excuses
A couple of Upper Tribunal appeal decisions on rent repayment order cases. Kaszowska & Ors v White (HOUSING - RENT PAYMENT - whether a rent repayment order may be made against a director of a company landlord) (2022) UKUT 11 (LC) We saw the FTT decision...
‘The present proceedings should never have been brought.’ ASB and disability discrimination.
Rosebery Housing Association Ltd v Williams & Anor (2021) EW Misc 22 (CC) Our grateful thanks to Marie Paris of Doughty Street Chambers for the following note of this County Court judgment. Applications for injunctions under Part 1 of ASBCPA 2014 seem to...