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R v Q [2011] EWCA Crim 1584. On Lawtel but not on BAILII This is an appeal concerning s1(3A), Protection From Eviction Act 1977. This subsection was inserted by the Housing Act 1988 and was intended to fix a problem with s1(3). S1(3A) reads: Subject to...
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...
The usual hat tip to 'recent developments in housing law' in Legal Action for this one, and also Mick O'Sullivan at Avon and Bristol Law Centre. Boyle v Musso, Bristol County Court 25/10/2010 Mr Boyle was an assured shorthold tenant. There had been a dispute...
Strydom v Fowler. Brentford County Court 24 November 2010 A County Court case involving possession, unlawful eviction, trespass and Housing Act 1988 s27 and s28. Our thanks (as ever) to the Legal Action 'Recent Developments in Housing Law' for this one. Mr F...
According to the website of Oxford City Council a landlord has been jailed for three months for unlawful eviction. Mr Kenston McIntosh received three months after pleading guilty at Oxford Crown Court on 29 October 2010. Undoubtedly the sentence was...
Sheffield CC v Wall (by her personal representatives), Wall, Ingham, Butler [2010] EWCA Civ 922, is, on any view, an unusual case. The Court of Appeal didn't, however, help matters. Imagine, if you will, that, in 1967, Mr Steven Wall was placed with Mrs June...
Naughton v Whittle and Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police. Manchester County Court 30/11/2009 (Legal Action July 2010) The tendency of the police to be utterly useless in cases of unlawful eviction has been a recurrent motif on Nearly Legal. They...
In the second post of County Court cases you will already have read in June's Legal Action Housing updates, we turn to unlawful eviction and harassment. And it appears to have been a rich few months in this regard, with no fewer than five cases to note....
June's Legal Action housing updates have a bumper collection of interesting county court cases, as you'll already know. For our archives, this is the first of a couple of posts. This one deals with cases on post-eviction re-entry and on re-opening possession...
Islam v Yap and Others. Claim No: TLQ/09/1130. High Court, 20 November 2009. This was a claim for unlawful eviction and a tale worthy of a play by Ben Jonson. There were no less than 5 defendants, and such superfluity necessitates an opening description of...
Kakas v Farmer, Court of Appeal, 29.1.10 (extempore judgment, only available as a lawtel note) Section 27, 1988 Act creates a statutory tort of attempting or actually depriving a residential occupier of his occupation of some or all of the premises....
The January 2010 Housing updates in Legal Action have some County Court case reports that hadn't reached us. You will naturally have already read them in Legal Action, but for our archives... Tenancy Deposits O'Brien v Hill Barnet County Court 22/09/2009 Mr...