Tessa Shepperson's Landlord law blog has been up since February 2006, predating us by four months. The name is slightly misleading - Tessa deals with residential landlord and tenant matters and has much to say of interest for private tenants as well as...
Now we are three
It seems like it was just yesterday it started, albeit with a very long and restless night in between, but Nearly Legal is now three years old, which in internet terms is late middle age to bus pass territory. But, if I wondered how the time was actually...
New housing minister!
We now have a new housing minister, Margaret Beckett, having returned to the backbenches and her predecessor, Caroline Flint (she of the transparent brief about home ownership crisis), also resigned but with rather more to say about the treatment of women in...
All in a good cause
The London Legal Support Trust annual sponsored walk takes place on 18 May 2009, at 5.30pm. Members of the judiciary, as well as solicitors, barristers and ILEX members engage in a leisurely stroll around London in order to raise money for legal charities...
Miscellany
In the continuing absence of anything like actual case law, here are some news items and catch up bits on previous stories. The Government has announced the availability of its Homeowner Mortgage Support Scheme. This is available for those with mortgages up...
On the Naughty Step- allegedly
The CAB in Wales appears to have branched out into inadvertent wealth re-distribution, allegedly by way and end of Dale and Sally Foster now on trial at Swansea County Court. The Fosters ran the CAB office at Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, together. In fact,...
By way of apology…
There will be some housing law along in a minute, but I've had an email request that prompts a bit of an apology. How, in the employment law blog links, could I have overlooked Daniel Barnett's blog. Daniel Barnett has a valid claim to be one of the parents...
New search tools
The previous live search form that sat in the column to the right was getting a little creaky. The archives on this site are quite large now and it just wasn't returning the results properly, and/or there were too many for it to handle adequately. Sometimes...
New year revamp?
Albeit too late and too slow to count as a new look for 2009, a few changes are being slowly rolled out hereabouts. There's a new header and tag line (both likely subject to further revision), a new title font, a re-jig of the blogroll listing to the right,...
A warm welcome
We've had an email from HHJ Madge, perhaps better known to housing lawyers as Nic Madge, co-editor with Jan Luba QC of LAG's housing law updates and general all round doyen of the field. I'm delighted to be told that Nic Madge has started his own site, which...
Have a good break
Nearly Legal is on holiday for a bit. Don't expect anything much before early January. Unless, of course, something comes up, or a whim takes one or more of us by force. A well earned rest to all our readers, before a doubtless to be frenzied 2009.
Unsung heroes Part 2
The shortlist for the Legal Aid Practitioners Group Legal Aid lawyers of the year awards is out (see previous post here), and given that housing only featured as a subset of social welfare, there is a good crop of housing lawyers in there. Not NL, of course....