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Alongside such luminaries as the Lord Chief Justice, The Master of the Rolls, The Presidents of The Law Society and ILEX and the Chairman of the Bar, a couple of the Nearly Legal team are taking part in the London Legal Walk on 21 May 2012. This is a 10...
The 2012 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year nominations are open. In this difficult time for legal aid, what better than to celebrate the passion and commitment of those working in legal aid practice? Do you know someone or a practice whose work should be...
Macattram v Camden London Borough Council (2012) QBD (Admin) On Lawtel but no on BAILII This is an interesting little problem involving the payment of Council Tax. The landlord had rented the property to the Council. They had used it to house homeless...
Just for a little bit of Friday fun, I bring you the news that friend of the blog Mike Weatherley MP has apparently joined forces with a well known chain of coffee houses to create a competition called ‘Rock The House’. The competition is aimed at unsigned...
As of April 2012, all Civil and Family Courts in the London region (and apparently throughout England and Wales) will be changing the opening times of the court desks. They will be open only between 11 am and 1 pm. According to HMCTS: Court users attending...
Happy new year to all who read, comment on or write for Nearly Legal! This is usually a moment to take stock of the past year and look forward to the next, but I'm feeling far too lazy to do it properly. Luckily, the DCLG have made the task easier by...
I need to make the obvious pun about the Adams family but the monsters in this particular case were really played collectively by Lambeth. The case is R on the application of Janet Adams v The Commission for Local Administration for England. This is...
A few updates about the blog... Those who rely on the email updates for new posts won't have got any updates for the last two or three days. Those reading the RSS feed won't have had any updates either. There was a glitch that stopped the feed and emails...
Just a quick note to remind people that the second of Channel 4 Dispatches on 'Landlords from hell" is on tonight at 8.30. It is billed as: Jon Snow and a team of undercover reporters find out what really happens to those desperate to find a home, now that...
[Update 4 Dec 2011: We have had a lot of responses - thank you all. We should have some new writers joining us over the next few days, which will hopefully resolve the immediate pressures.] As regular readers may have noticed, the pace of updates has...
The HLPA Housing Law Conference 2011 14 December 2011 The Royal College of Surgeons 35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3PE Registration here This year has already thrown up a number of significant challenges for housing law practitioners and these...
Lord Neuberger MR recently gave a speech to the RICS conference on dilapidations. This conference focuses on dilapidations in commercial property and the speech partly discussed the forthcoming dilapidations pre-action protocol and so might be thought to be...