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Global 100 Ltd v Ross & Ors (HOUSING - Rent Repayment Order - para. 2 Sch 14 Housing Act 2004 - s.263(3)(b) Housing Act 2004 - HMO - "person managing" - "arrangement" - "by virtue of which") (2025) UKUT 264 (LC) This was Global 100's appeal of a rent...
Fatolahzadeh v London Borough of Barnet (Rev1) (2025) EWCA Civ 1174 A further Court of Appeal decision on whether an alleged failure to carry out a housing needs assessment under s.189A Housing Act 1996 of a homeless applicant invalidates subsequent...
AN, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (2025) EWHC 2265 (Admin) This was a judicial review of i) Barking's alleged failure to produce a lawful Housing Needs Assessment (HNA) as required by section 18(A Housing Act 1996, and...
Sims, R (On the Application Of) v The London Borough of Hackney (Rev1) (2025) EWHC 2271 (Admin) This was a renewed permission hearing on an application for judicial review. Mr Sims is the secure tenant of Hackney, in a flat on the second floor of a block,...
(As ever, we are very grateful to Mike Norman of Harrow Law Centre for his updates on housing law in Wales. This is the second of two posts by Mike on the huge changes in homelessness law set out in the Homelessness and Social Housing (Wales) Bill, including...
Ameera Macintyre v Cowdray Trust Limited and Rathbones Trust Company Limited (2025) EWCC 54 A County Court appeal to a Circuit Judge from a first instance decision on a possession claim based on a section 21 notice (after previous s.21 proceedings were...
The second of a series of reports on County Court judgements in housing conditions claims - on what might be called procedural and costs wars. The first, focused on expert evidence and the pre-action protocol, is here. Carter v Leeds City Council. County...
Haneen Abdelrahman v The Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Islington (2025) EWCA Civ 1038 Islington Council tenancies had a discretionary succession policy on the death of the tenant, which included a 'stepchild' as someone who could succeed to...
Lancastle v Curo Group (Albion) Limited (2025) EWCC 48 This is a judgment on application in two joined cases, Lancastle v Curo Group and Bailey & Bennet v Curo Places. In each, the defendant landlord had applied variously for the claims to be struck out...
Anisa Begum v London Borough of Tower Hamlets (2025) EWCA Civ 1049 We saw this judicial review claim in the High Court here. The claim was dismissed and Ms Begum appealed to the Court of Appeal. Shelter was given permission to intervene. The issue was...
(As ever, we are very grateful to Mike Norman of Harrow Law Centre for his updates on housing law in Wales. This is the first of two posts by Mike on the huge changes in homelessness law set out in the Homelessness and Social Housing (Wales) Bill, including...
[Edit 20/08/25 - anonymised at tenant's request. NL] Sanghera v O & O. Dartford County Court. 23 November 2023. (Unreported elsewhere. We were sent a copy of the judgment.) This was a County Court appeal to a Circuit Judge of a possession order made by...