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Social Welfare Law contracts – update
The LAG news blog is reporting that while Family contracts resulted in 'carnage' with an estimated 1300 out of 2400 firms being awarded contracts - about 54%, in Social Welfare Law the LSC is saying that it believes 'around 70%' of existing providers will be...
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We welcome comments on our posts. Our readers and commenters are usually a hugely well informed, knowledgeable, witty and interesting group of people. However, there has been an increase in the number of 'post and run' commenters just trying to get a link to...
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Legal Aid contract round – In the thick of it
The results of the Social Welfare Law and combined Housing/Family contract bids are slowly coming through. I am mindful that as I write this, firms/organisations in specific areas have not yet been informed whether they have a contract and if so for how many...
A plea to Internet Explorer 6 users
Are you using Internet Explorer 6 to look at this site? Apparently about 22% of you are. (If you are not sure, click on 'help' in the menu, then 'About Internet Explorer', Does it say 'version 6.xxxx'. There you go). If you are using Explorer 6, please stop....
Break Clauses North of the Border
The Scottish Court of Session (Inner House) has been considering how to apply Mannai in relation to mis-identification of the landlord in a break notice.
FreeLegalWeb
For a while, behind the scenes, we here at Nearly Legal have been involved in the Free Legal Web project, managed by the redoubtable Nick Holmes of binary law. The aim of Free Legal Web is to: •Provide guidance on the law via a user-generated database of...
An offer you can refuse*
*but it remains open. Not a housing post per se, but this case concerns Part 36 offers which are a vital tool in any disrepair or nuisance claim or counterclaim, so worth a brief note for practitioners. Gibbon v Manchester City Council [2010] EWCA Civ 726...
Farewell, then, to “Roof”
The last issue of Shelter's excellent Roof magazine has landed on my desk today. It's been a mainstay of my preoccupation with housing issues for the past 20 years, and it would be wrong to let its passing go without a short note. The last issue is a...
Housing policy dribbles
Or the good, the bad and the ugly from the Housing minister and the Communities and Local Government secretary. Grant Shapps, housing minister has been setting out some plans, or perhaps aspirations. Mostly, these seem to involve encouraging people to buy...
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords*
So, that is Ken Clark as MoJ and Lord Chancellor, Eric Pickles at DCLG and now, apparently, Grant Shapps as Housing minister. Here is what Mr Shapps was putting forward a year ago as shadow housing minister, much of which made it into the manifesto. But, in...