[Updated 8 August 2022 to correct re LPC being on the record as party's solicitor and significance of this.] This is an issue that has come up here a few times (eg this post and this post) - the rights of audience of people who do not have a right of...
In case you are in need of distraction from the heat/the tory leadership contest/getting your first, second or third bout of covid/the general state of all things, may I present a small collection of judgments at which to rubberneck. None seem massively...
Hammad & Hammad v Paolini. County Court at Clerkenwell & Shoreditch. 27 June 2022 (We've seen a note of judgment) Yes, even while large chunks of the government resign and (as of this point in the evening of 5 July, it looks likely that Carrie...
Byrne v Harwood-Delgardo. Luton County Court. 21 June 2022. (Copy of Judgment) In my comments to our post on the Court of Appeal judgment in Trecarrell House Limited v Rouncefield (2020) EWCA Civ 760, I pointed out that the judgment only addressed late...
Kalonga, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Croydon (2022) EWCA Civ 670 The Court of Appeal was faced with the question of whether a local authority had the power to extend time for a flexible tenant to request a review of the authority's decision...
Lees v Kaye (2022) EWHC 1151 (QB) This is another judgment on the operation of the Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Space Moratorium and Mental Health Crisis Moratorium) (England & Wales) Regulations 2020. (The first was part of the Brake v Axnoller...
It is being reported that reform of the private rented sector, including the abolition of section 21, will be in the next Queen's Speech. It may not be a renters reform bill but part of a larger 'levelling up' bill, which does make one wonder about its...
Croydon London Borough Council v Kalonga (2022) UKSC 7 In which the Supreme Court considered the position on termination of 'flexible tenancies' - fixed term secure tenancies - during the fixed term. We saw the Court of Appeal judgment dismissing Croydon's...
Apologies, I know updates have been slow in the last few weeks - I have been very busy on a lot of time sensitive stuff and what down time I've had, has really been needed as, well, down time... But the blog has not been forgotten or abandoned, honest. There...
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...
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...
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...