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Laidley v Metropolitan Housing Trust Limited (2024) EWHC 2611 (Ch) (Copy of judgment. Not on Bailii or National Archives yet) This was the joined hearing of two appeals from a possession claim on grounds of anti social behaviour. Mr Laidley had an assured...
FG, R (On the Application Of) v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (2024) EWHC 780 (Admin) This was a judicial review of RBKC, asserting discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 in RBKC's failure to make physical adaptations to a flat occupied by...
Reading Borough Council v Holland (2023) EWHC 1902 (Ch) An appeal of a possession order made at first instance for Ms Holland's introductory tenancy of sheltered accommodation. Ms H was found by an expert report in the original proceedings to have...
Taylor v Slough Borough Council (2020) EWHC 3520 (Ch) An appeal on the issue of whether a Council landlord's initial failure to have regard to the Public Sector Equality Duty on commencing possession proceedings could be remedied by later performance of that...
Luton Community Housing Ltd v Durdana (2020) EWCA Civ 445 Ms Durdana was a tenant of LCH. She faced possession proceedings under ground 17 Sch 2 Housing Act 1988 - that the landlord was induced to grant the tenancy by a false statement made knowingly or...
Adesotu v Lewisham London Borough Council (2019) EWCA Civ 1405 We first saw this case as a county court appeal (our note here) where the central issue was whether Equality Act 2010 issues could be raised and decided within a section 204 Housing Act 1996...
Adesotu v Lewisham LBC Case No E40CL183, a decision of HHJ Luba on preliminary issues handed down on 8th February 2019, is so going to the Court of Appeal that the judge (having been satisfied that Ms Adesotu and her household would continue to be...
I was excited to see R(Z) v Hackney LBC & Agudas Israel HA (2019) EWHC 139 (Admin), because it is the first case in which the thorny issue of "nomination" rights and, potentially, the concept of a "true void" have arisen for full decision by a court of...
Smailes & Poyner-Smailes v Clewer Court Residents Ltd, Cardiff County Court 30 January 2019 (Unreported but copy of judgment is here). Although only a County Court (Circuit Judge) decision, this is an interesting and potentially significant case on the...
Paragon Asra Housing Limited v James Neville [2018] EWCA Civ 1712 An appeal on the issue of whether disability discrimination should be considered afresh on an application for stay of warrant following breach of a suspended possession order. Mr N was...
My apologies for the link to the Daily Mail, but it appears that Fergus Wilson is at it again. For newcomers, Wilson has a considerable history of being a Very Bad Private Landlord. For example, losing to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission on a case...
There is an interesting note here on a county court case claiming discrimination under Equality Act 2010 for failure to make physical adjustments to a property. As is generally known, a 'controller of let premises' (section 36) does not have to make...