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On 1 June 2020, we noted here that The Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020 had a bit of a quirk. The regulations applied to all ‘new specified tenancies’ from 1 July 2020. But a ‘new specified tenancy’ is...
Trecarrell House Limited v Rouncefield (2020) EWCA Civ 760 It is fair to say this Court of Appeal decision has been widely and keenly awaited. Unfortunately, for reasons I will explain in my comment at the end, I think it leaves us with a lot of...
Mitchell, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Islington (2020) EWHC 1478 (Admin) Where a local authority has an initial s.188 Housing Act 1996 duty to provide interim accommodation, but then makes a s.184 decision that the applicant is not in...
There is more detail on the stay of possession proceedings that will replace Practice Direction 51Z on 25 June 2020. But first there is an amendment to PD 51Z. The amendment came out today, 11 June 2020 and is effective immediately. Here is the 121st...
SSWP V WT and Redcar and Cleveland BC (HB) (2019) UKUT 372 (AAC) Very late to this one (I missed it) but a brief note on a doomed attempt in the Upper Tribunal to challenge The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Hockley & Anor (2019) EWCA Civ...
Triplerose Ltd v Beattie & Anor (LANDLORD AND TENANT - BREACH OF COVENANT) (2020) UKUT 180 (LC) Another Upper Tribunal decision to add to the now large pile of cases on airbnb/short let use and breach of lease. In this case, the FTT had found the short...
Late on Friday afternoon, Robert Jenrick, Secretary of State for Housing, tweeted https://twitter.com/robertjenrick/status/1268937937300922368?s=21 (Update - more on the announcement here) I understand the details are as follows. PD 51Z will be extended in...
Gil v London Borough of Camden (2020) EWHC 735 (QB) This was an application for permission to appeal the dismissal of a s.204 appeal for being out of time. (It was either one or two days out of time, depending). The application was dismissed because a) the...
Idolo, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Bromley (2020) EWHC 860 (Admin) I'm a bit late to this one (ironically, as it turns out), it has been an open browser tab for ages, sorry. It is a judicial review on the overlap of Care Act 2014 duties and...
Croydon London Borough Council v Kalonga (2020) EWHC 1353 (QB) Flexible tenancies. We always said they were a bad idea. This was a determination of a possession claim brought by Croydon LBC against Ms Kalonga, who had a five year term flexible tenancy. This...
A couple of notes for the first of June. (It looks lovely out there, but if 6 socially distanced people from separate households turn up in my block's communal gardens I will Not Be Happy). The Tenant Fees Act 2019 as of 1 June 2020 applies to all tenancies...
Astonishingly, Nearly Legal is at its 14th birthday. The blog started in June 2006. That is 14 years I've spent on this site, man woman and child. Forgive me if in these fevered and increasingly hallucinatory times, I have a bit of a self indulgent...