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Three county court cases - all first instance judgments and non-binding, but each of interest, including the first two fitness for human habitation decisions that have come our way and a complicating decision on gas safety certificates and section 21...
Regular readers will no doubt recall this remarkable case, in which Notting Hill Genesis sought and obtained a freezing injunction against a disbarred barrister, Katrina McCarthy for tortiously inducing a breach of contract by getting NHG's tenant to pay the...
A couple of case reports are on the go, but maybe significantly delayed, I'm working up to moving house next week, and physically and mentally, everything is all over the place and probably in the wrong box. But we have to note the King's Speech and the...
After a lot of concern that the Bill was going to be lost, the Government announced that the second reading of the Renters (Reform) Bill will take place on Monday 23 October, so enabling it to be carried forward into the next parliamentary session after the...
Our thanks to Haroon Sarwar of TV Edwards and Marina Sergides of Garden Court for the details of this county court possession case. Tower Hamlets Community Housing v The personal representative of Joseph Desir & Ors. County Court at Clerkenwell &...
A new version of the How to Rent Guide was released today, 2 October 2023. This needs to be given to the tenant on all new and replacement tenancies (including on statutory periodic arising) from today onwards. NB - 'given' means a physical copy given to the...
Reading Borough Council v Holland (2023) EWHC 1902 (Ch) An appeal of a possession order made at first instance for Ms Holland's introductory tenancy of sheltered accommodation. Ms H was found by an expert report in the original proceedings to have...
Richworth Ltd v Billingham (2023) EW Misc 8 (CC) Over the years we've seen a number of county court decisions on the issue of when a deposit counts as returned for the purposes of being able to serve a section 21 notice (see here and the links in that...
I was going to finish off a very overdue post on a very interesting s.204 appeal on suitability, but that will have to wait - maybe tomorrow - because my jaw has just dropped on seeing this case report from Landmark Chambers. Let me just outline what has...
Wilson v Wilson & Anor (2023) EW Misc 5 (CC) A county court judgment on a claim under section 27 Housing Act 1988 for unlawful deprivation of occupation, against a background of breakdown in relations between a family. The key issue being the residential...
A couple of County Court judgments - by HHJ Luba KC, as a circuit judge. Buckle up for a bumpy ride through the all too familiar county court landscape of erratic pleadings, lengthy delays and parties who rather mistakenly think that their own bluster and...
Our grateful thanks as ever to Mike Norman of Harrow Law Centre for Part 2 of his updates on the implementation of Renting Homes (Wales) Act. Part 1 is here. Wales - Renting Homes updates: The Good, the Bad and the Converted - part 2 Introduced by the...