Johnson & Ors v Old [2013] EWCA Civ 415 The Court of Appeal has been turning its mind to another of the odd questions that has sprung from the fertile litigious bosom of tenancy deposit protection. In this case the argument was over the question of rent...
Housing Act Changes
The Housing Act 1988 has been amended to increase the maximum rent level to £100,000.
Right to buy and Housing Benefit rebates in the Lords
The House of Lords opinions in Hanoman (FC) (Respondent) v London Borough of Southwark (Appellants) [2009] UKHL 29 were handed down today. This was Southwark's appeal of a Court of Appeal judgment we noted here. Briefly, Mr Hanoman was a Southwark secure...
What is a locality?
R (on the application of Heffernan) (FC) (Appellant) v The Rent Service) (Respondents) [2008] UK 58 concerns the meaning of locality in para 4(6) of Part 1 Schedule 1 Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Order 1997. Locality serves to define the area by...
HB as rent for RTB
Hanoman v London Borough of Southwark [2008] EWCA Civ 624 Where a local authority landlord has failed to respond to a tenant's notice in time under the Right to Buy procedure, the tenant can serve an 'operative notice of delay' under s.153A(5) Housing Act...