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Dacorum Borough Council v Bucknall (aka Acheampong) [2017] EWHC 2094 (QB) When is temporary accommodation provided under the Housing Act 1996 Section 193(2) duty occupied 'as a dwelling' fo the purposes of Section 3 Protection from Eviction Act 1977? We know...
Poplar Housing & Regeneration Community Association Ltd v Begum & Ors [2017] EWHC 2040 (QB) We are no fans of illegal subletting of social housing here at NL. So here is an appeal by the landlord of a county court decision to grant a suspended...
Following the judgment in Cardiff City Council v Lee (2016) EWCA Civ 1034 (our report) and the subsequent appearance of new forms, at least for rent arrears suspended possession order cases, the Civil Procedure Rules Committee is having a consultation on...
Rochdale Boroughwide Housing Ltd v Izevbigie (2017) EWHC 790 (CH) (not on Bailii yet, Judgment is here) Rochdale BH is a social housing provider (of what was the council's housing stock). The issue in this case - heard as a preliminary issue - was whether...
Not, I hasten to make clear, a Daily Mail style piece on the health giving properties of drinking expensive water, but a couple of quick notes. First, a Southwark rent arrears possession case, demonstrating that the effects of Jones v London Borough of...
Dove v London Borough of Havering [2017] EWCA Civ 156 This was an appeal of a possession order made against the joint (formerly secure) tenants on the ground of non-occupation as primary or only home, and also serious rent arrears. Both the Ms Dove (twin...
I am surprised it had not happened sooner, because there had to be some, but today someone spotted an error in the section 21 notice flowchart - specifically in the end-note about s.21(4)(a) notices for tenancies that were periodic from the outset. A...
The ramifications of Jones v London Borough of Southwark (2016) EWHC 457 (Ch) (our report) rumble on. Following the finding that Southwark were a water reseller for the purposes of The Water Resale Order 2006 in adding water rates to the tenants' rent, it is...
(1) Camelot Property Management Ltd, (2) Camelot Guardian Management Ltd v Greg Roynon. County Court at Bristol, 24 February 2017 (copy of Judgment) We've noted the issues bubbling away between Camelot and property guardians in Bristol (here, and here), and...
BBC News reported on the effect of the Retaliatory Eviction provisions in the Deregulation Act, some 16 months on. A large scale FOI request produced the result that only 19% of councils had recorded stopping even 1 retaliatory eviction through service of an...
Service of notices, claims etc on 'last known address' can be a bit of a thorny issue. Not least the question of the extent of reasonable inquiries to find the missing person before the 'last known address' can be relied on for service. Thus the intriguing...
Following on from this post and then this one, there are further developments on the issue of rights of audience for 'solicitors agents' or 'advocates' - those who turn up to represent a party despite not being qualified to provide advocacy on their own...