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[Edit 16/09: We now have contrary information, also 'authoritative' in source, also unconfirmed, that the appeal is going ahead. So, until we have further info, your guess is as good as ours.] Thanks to Ethan at 'That Snail..' for passing on unconfirmed news...
The Housing and Regeneration Act has now received royal assent. A full history of its passage through Parliament is here. 24/7 - the full text of the act is now up on the OPSI site [pdf]
North Devon Homes Ltd. v Batchelor [2008] EWCA Civ 840 concerned a claim for possession of an assured tenancy. At County Court, the claim was brought on grounds 10, 12 and 14 HA 1988. While the claim resulted in a postponed possession order for ground 10...
Judgment just out Weaver (R) v London & Quadrant Housing Trust [2008] EWHC 1377 (Admin) Full notes tomorrow, but the headline is: L&Q is a public authority in its housing function for the purposes of Judicial Review. Use of ground 8 possession claims...
Governors of the Peabody Trust v Reeve (Times report) Registered Social landlords cannot vary tenancy agreements unilaterally, save for rent changes. Any other variation of terms requires consent of both parties in writing. Unlike local authorities,...
The Joint Committee on Human Rights has recommended that the Oftenant regime and the Housing and Regeneration bill extend the scope of the Human Rights Act to Registered Social Landlords. In response to the Housing Federation complaining that this would...
More brief but hopefully helpful replies to the civil litigation and housing questions that brought searchers to Nearly Legal. As ever, nothing of what follows should be taken as legal advice and no action should be taken without obtaining full legal advice....
For some of us internet old timers, who were on usenet before the WWW existed and were hand coding websites in the mid 1990s, it is still a surprise how people treat search engines as something to put a fully fledged question into. January has been a bumper...
Raglan Housing Association Ltd v Fairclough [2007] EWCA Civ 1087. Basically, Housing Act 1988 Schedule 2 Ground 14 (b) means that if if you have been convicted of an indictable offence committed in, or in the locality of, the dwelling-house the discretionary...
To everything there is a season and housing issues are no exception. While winter brings a flood of disrepair cases, Spring is the time for relationship breakdown. Whether involving partners or spouses, this brings its own housing problems, particularly...
The Court of Appeal judgment in Riverside suggested that if rent increases hadn't been levied pretty much exactly as per any provision in the tenancy agreement, those increases were invalid. Riverside had levied rent increases later than the date specified...
Musing over the Court of Appeal judgment ([2007] EWCA Civ 236) today, it struck me that the case does something rather dramatic to the issue of tolerated trespassers, extending the thrust of Swindon v Aston [2003] HLR 610. What we knew from Swindon v Aston...