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X, Y & Z v the United Kingdom - 32666/10 [2011] ECHR 1199 The long and sorry story of X & Y v Hounslow appears to have reached an end. As you will recall, this was the case that resulted from the horrendous abuse of two highly vulnerable Hounslow...
It is certainly not a truism that legislation which is given the closest possible scrutiny is thereafter free from doubt - consider, for example, the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989, which we always used to call the mysterious provisions...
Hammersmith and Fulham LBC v Forbes Willesden County Court 14 April 2011 While we are on County Court proceedings based on drugs and nuisance (see the previous post), this is a possession case following closure orders and allegations of dealing. Hat tip to...
Barking & Dagenham LBC v Bakare, Imevbore & Imevbore. Romford County Court 14/03/2011 HHJ Platt [unreported elsewhere] A county court case, but one with some interesting issues. Also a cautionary tale on being able to actually provide evidence of...
Crown Estate Commissioners v Peabody Trust & Poplak [2011] EWHC 1467 (Ch) [link to PDF] As we noted a while ago, the transfer of the Crown Estates Commissioners social housing estates to the Peabody Trust had brought about a test case on the status of...
Allen v Southwark LBC [No.2] [2011] EWCA Civ 470 I haven't been able to find a report on this case, save for a note in the Garden Court Housing Law Bulletin for 26 April 2011. If anyone has a transcript, we'd be very keen to see it. This looks like the end...
Carmarthenshire CC v Lewis [2010] EWCA Civ 1567 Another tug of the forelock to 'Recent developments in housing law' in Legal Action for this one, apparently unreported elsewhere. [Update 14/03/11 - we've had a message from Carmarthenshire on this case, see...
Forgive the slight delay, but DCLG published their summary of responses to their Consultation on Local Decisions: A Fairer Future for Social Housing (which we discussed here) on 28 Feb. The outcome of the consultation appears to be, um, full steam ahead on...
...but what you do at the end of it that counts* FMB (EEA reg 6(2)(a) – ‘temporarily unable to work’) Uganda [2010] UKUT 447 (IAC) The Immigration and Asylum Tribunal (Upper Chamber) is not our usual stamping ground, but this is a decision which has...
Hat tip to Christian at the Estates Gazette Law blog for this one. Crown Estates are to sell their London 'social' residential estates to Peabody Trust. It appears that they are now urgently seeking a tenant to bring forward a test case for a declaration in...
London Borough of Hackney v Findlay [2011] EWCA Civ 8 This was the Court of Appeal hearing of an appeal on the issues raised in Forcelux v Binnie [2009] EWCA Civ 854 [Our report here], specifically the Court's ability to set aside a possession order under...
The Localism Bill had a second reading in the Commons yesterday. One amendment (Labour) was tabled and defeated. Looks like the significant amendments will be made in Committee. Not - I must say - the best quality debate ever as it appears to have been...