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(Our very grateful thanks to Mike Norman of Harrow Law Centre - our official Wales correspondent, whether he knows it or not - for the following update.) On 10th October 2023, the Welsh government released its Consultation on the White Paper on Ending...
SR v Lambeth London Borough Council, County Court at Central London, 21st October 2021 H40CL201 – HHJ Roberts (unreported elsewhere) Our thanks to Justine Compton of Garden Court Chambers for the following note of a section 204 appeal judgment on a priority...
After assorted rumours, it was officially announced that section 78 Domestic Abuse Act 2021 came into force today, (Monday 5 July 2021), although the regulations bringing it into force weren't actually published until about 4.30 pm (I was hunting for them)....
Perrott v Hackney London Borough Council, 29 Janaury 2021, Central London County Court (unreported - approved judgment here) and Perrott v Hackney London Borough Council, 29 January 2021, Central London County Court (unreported - approved judgment here) Two...
Today, 29 June 2020, MHCLG issued an update to the statutory Homelessness code of guidance for local authorities. The relevant updates are to the chapter on priority need and consist of a new paragraph 8.44 and 8.45, as follows: 8.44 COVID-19: Housing...
Panayiotou v London Borough of Waltham Forest (2017) EWCA Civ 1624 This is an important court of appeal decision on the meaning of 'significantly' in Lord Neuberger's definition of vulnerability under s.189(1)(c) Housing Act 1996 in Hotak v Southwark LBC...
S Butt v London Borough of Hackney. County Court at Central London. 22 February 2016 (PDF of judgment) This was another in a number of county court judgments on section 204 Housing Act 1996 appeals which turned on the question of vulnerability after the...
Following on from our post on Mohammed v Southwark LBC, here are notes on a further three appeals to the County Court under section 204 Housing Act 1996, all related to decisions on priority need (or lack of it) through vulnerability. Ward v LB Haringey....
Hotak (Appellant) v London Borough of Southwark (Respondent) Kanu (Appellant) v London Borough of Southwark (Respondent) Johnson (Appellant) v Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council (Respondent) Crisis & Shelter, EHRC, SS for CLG interveners [2015] UKSC...
With the Supreme Court set to look at priority need this December, Ajilore v Hackney [2014] EWCA Civ 1273 may prove to be a brief footnote in the evolution of the bloated Pereira test. But, at least for the next four weeks, it tells us something about the...
Oxford City Council v Bull [2011] EWCA Civ 609 In which the Court of Appeal had to consider whether the homeless applicant had made himself intentionally homeless and whether he was in priority need. Mr Bull separated from his wife in June 2009 and left the...