Nearly Legal is a specialist housing law website, run by solicitors and barristers practising in the field.

The site provides information, updates and discussion on housing, leasehold and landlord & tenant law. It is all free, but it is just our opinions, not legal advice (we can't give legal advice here). Everything that the site offers is set out below.

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Job Ads – Birmingham and Finsbury

Community Law Partnership – Birmingham Housing Solicitor/Caseworker (full time permanent) and a Housing Solicitor/Caseworker (temp maternity cover min 6 months) We are seeking to recruit two experienced and dedicated housing lawyers to join our award winning, friendly and supportive team.  Hours of work:- 9.00 am to 5.30 pm Monday to Friday.  To apply:- go to our […]

A Housing Court – MHCLG have some odd questions for you.

And so the promised ‘call for evidence’ on the need for and outline of a specialist Housing Court has come to pass. And, frankly, what an odd thing it is. First, the MCHLG press release is headed Except the one thing that is definitely not happening in this is the unveiling of any actual proposals. […]

The way of the Wilsons

With a sense of grinding inevitability, and a smidgen of schadenfreude, once more Fergus and Judith Wilson feature in these pages. (Here is the previous trail). This time, the appearance is for Judith Wilson being found guilty of failing to comply with a Housing Act 2004 enforcement order requiring her to remedy a defective hot […]

Residential Purposes

Snarecroft Ltd v Quantum Securities Ltd (2018) EWHC 2071 (Ch) This is a High Court decision from February, but it has just appeared on Bailii. The issue was the construction of a lease term which provided that the tenant must “Following the obtaining of planning consent for residential use, not to use the premises or any […]
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