Gemma Shepley v Majid Yassen, Tameside County Court, Thursday 13th January 2011 (Unreported) The above case on the, increasingly litigated, tenancy deposit protection provisions was brought to our attention and is of particular interest as it specifically...
Tenancy Deposit Protection Eviscerated
Tiensia v Vision Enterprises Ltd (t/a Universal Estates) [2010] EWCA Civ 1224 (11 November 2010) This is the long awaited Court of Appeal decision on tenancy deposit protection. It is a conjoined appeal of Universal Estates v Tiensia and Honeysuckle...
Mr Pickles is unlawful and other bits
Cala Homes (South) Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government & Anor [2010] EWHC 2866 (Admin) found Eric Pickles, SoS at DCLG, acted unlawfully in scrapping the Regional Strategies for housing development, which also, lest we forget,...
When more means less
Green v Sinclair Investments Limited Clerkenwell and Shoreditch County Court. 11 June 2010 This is a County Court and non-binding tenancy deposit case reported in September 2010 Legal Action 'Recent Developments'. But it is interesting and harks back to a...
New Tenancy Deposit Cases in Legal Action
Our new copy of Legal Action flopped onto the mat here at Nearly Legal Towers this morning. Looking at the reported cases a pair of tenancy deposit matters caught my eye. One of these we have already written about here. In Baafi v Mapp, Central London County...
All mimsy were the borogoves
The Jabberwock of the tenancy deposit scheme came whiffling again, in the tulgey wood of Northampton County Court. This time it was the clause that catch to beware of. And there's a disrepair claim in there too. Paula O'Brien v Jacqueline Jones & Andrew...
Waiting For Tiensia
A case in Central London CC has considered the meaning of ‘received’ in relation to tenancy deposit protection.
Tenancy Deposits- A Novel Argument on Hold
Another County Court case on tenancy deposits with a couple of unusual arguments.
Tenancy Deposits on Sale and Rent Back on Appeal
The Court of Appeal has ruled on a Sale and Rent Back matter and on its connection to Tenancy Deposit Protection.
Tenancy Deposits: A retrospective
In advance of the brace of Court of Appeal hearings on the tenancy deposit scheme (TDS), contained in sections 212-4 and Schedule 10, Housing Act 2004, and after the High Court decision in Draycott & Draycott v Hannells (discussed with additional,...
Two weeks, three months, whatever. TDS in the High Court.
Draycott & Draycott -v- Hannells Letting Limited [2010] EWHC 217 (QB) This is the first High Court judgment on the tenancy deposit scheme element of the Housing Act 2004 and thus the first that is binding on all lower (County) Courts. This is therefore a...
Tenancy Deposit – renewal of tenancy again
Bihari v House Trader (UK ) Limited. 14 January 2010, Central London County Court While we wait for the forthcoming High Court and Court of Appeal decisions in tenancy deposit cases, here is a tenancy deposit appeal, but, alas, only to a Circuit Judge, so...