Haile v Waltham Forest LBC [2015] UKSC 34 is the second of the triptych of cases which are before the UKSC (We have yet to have the outcome of the third one, the eligibility appeals in Samin/Mirga). The first, Johnson/Hotak/Kanu, as NL wrote, is...
Intentionally homeless via co-tenant.
Viackiene v Tower Hamlets LBC (2013) CA (Civ Div) 11/12/2013 [Not on Bailii, note on Lawtel, not seen full transcript] Ms V was the joint tenant of a private property under an assured short hold tenancy. The other tenant was J. Both were jointly and...
Duty to provide rent-free accommodation?
R (Best) v Oxford City Council [2009] EWHC 608 (Admin), [2009] All ER (D) 252, noted on this week's Garden Court Housing Law Bulletin, but not yet on BAILII. This is a judicial review that essentially turned on whether a local housing authority has a duty...
Nelsonian ignorance
Iyekekpolor Ugiagbe is a dream appellant - or, rather, an appellant whose homelessness story is a dream for a neo-liberal Court of Appeal who allowed her appeal against Southwark's finding that she was intentionally homeless (Ugiagbe v Southwark LBC, [2009]...
Intentional homelessness and badly behaved children
This is somewhat belated - I'd missed these and the court of appeal isn't on Bailii to link to - so thanks to Legal Action for the heads up. White v Southwark LBC [2008] EWCA Civ 792 was an application for permission for a second appeal from a s.204 appeal....
Women's refuges and homelessness
Manchester City Council v Moran & Richards v Ipswich Borough Council [2008] EWCA Civ 378 This is a very important Court of Appeal judgment, which will have significant impact on Women's Refuges and women fleeing domestic violence. These were two appeals,...