Luton Law Centre Post: Senior Solicitor Salary: £36,000 to £39,000 p.a. (FTE) Hours: Full time or part time - 25 to 35 hours per week Luton Law Centre is seeking a Senior Solicitor to provide overall direction to and supervision of their legal work and to...
Job ads – Central London and Luton
Mary Ward Legal Centre Do you want to join a friendly and committed team of Housing Solicitors? We are looking to recruit a full-time Housing solicitor to undertake a wide range of casework including defending possession proceedings, counterclaims,...
Job ads – South London and Luton
Anthony Gold Solicitors Paralegal – Housing and Property Disputes -Fixed 2-year contract Anthony Gold is currently recruiting for a Housing and Property Disputes paralegal to support a varied and interesting caseload, based at our Elephant & Castle and...
The teenage years
Astonishingly, Nearly Legal is at its 14th birthday. The blog started in June 2006. That is 14 years I've spent on this site, man woman and child. Forgive me if in these fevered and increasingly hallucinatory times, I have a bit of a self indulgent...
Job ads – Southwark and Shepherds Bush
Anthony Gold Solicitors Paralegal Anthony Gold has an exciting opportunity for a Housing, Landlord & Tenant paralegal to support a varied and interesting caseload, based at our Elephant & Castle office on a 24 month contract. The firm is a recognised...
A bit of a pause
I'm looking at four cases that need writing up. None earth-shattering but all worthy of note. There is also the coming into force of the Tenant Fees Act 2019 on 1 June, which needs a post, and indeed an updating of the s.21 flowchart. But any writing up of...
Hiatus brief updates (and job ad)
Quick couple of cases to note (no analysis), a bit of news and a job ad. Two linked appeals on out of borough/out of London Homelessness review decisions - Alibkhiet v London Borough of Brent v City of Westminster (2018) EWCA Civ 2742 Upper Tribunal (Lands...
On the Naughty Step – the questionable ethics of the Christian Legal Centre
Some people will not have come across the Christian Legal Centre (CLC) until the Alfie Evans case. Others will know something of their history. What the Alfie Evans case has done is cast light on what one might call the modus operandi of the CLC and some...
Job ads – Wandsworth, South London
Youth Legal – Community Care Solicitor with housing experience A position has opened for a Community Care Consultant Solicitor with housing experience to enhance and expand the community care and housing work presently undertaken. This is a unique...
Promises, promises: Estoppel in the West Country
As we University academics are currently on strike (pension cuts - see today's report and this Guardian article), I can catch up on a little blogging as a form of "teaching out". While Bristol Combined Court was flooded, HHJ Matthews, an academic judge,...
Dismissing Fergus
And so, after mentioning my instruction on Danny Hyde's defence to a claim by Fergus Wilson here, the hearing came to pass.... but we'll come to the result in a minute or several. Fergus Wilson, for the few amongst you who will not have come across him, is a...
Job Ad – SW London
Wainwright & Cummins LLP HOUSING SOLICITOR & SUPERVISOR Wainwright & Cummins LLP are looking for a motivated, passionate and dynamic housing solicitor 4yrs PQE + to take over the role of Head of Housing Department. The applicant must have LAA...