“On 30th July 2012 Ingrid Simler QC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, handed down judgment in JL-v- (1) Secretary of State for Defence (2) Leeds City Council (Interested Party) [2012] EWHC 2216 (Admin).”
Hardwicke Chambers, 6th August 2012
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
Regina v Sumal & Sons (Properties) Ltd: [2012] EWCA Crim 1840; [2012] WLR (D) 247
“A landlord who committed an offence of managing an unlicensed house, contrary to section 95(1) of the Housing Act 2004, did not ‘obtain’ property ‘as a result of or in connection with’ his criminal conduct, for the purposes of section 76(4) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, by the receipt of rent. Therefore a court sentencing a landlord for such an offence could not impose a confiscation order in the sum of the rent received.”
WLR Daily, 8th August 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council v Hickin [2012] UKSC 39; [2012] WLR (D) 224
“Where one of two or more persons holding under a joint secure tenancy died, the tenancy vested in the survivor or survivors rather than vesting in a person qualified to succeed the deceased person pursuant to section 89 of the Housing Act 1985.”
WLR Daily, 25th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Basildon council is preparing to bring back bailiffs after travellers removed from Europe’s largest illegal site at Dale Farm in Essex moved to a neighbouring settlement.”
The Guardian, 25th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A senior judge wrote a brief history of the caravan after the Court of Appeal ruled on a planning dispute.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Conditional review decisions in introductory tenancy cases following Camden v Stafford.”
Full story (PDF)
Zenith Chambers, 5th July 2012
Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk
“Today I am talking to Giles Peaker, a solicitor at Anthony Gold Solicitors and founder of the Nearly Legal blog – a specialist housing blog which has grown with Giles since he became ‘fully legal’ and started working with ten barrister and solicitor contributors.”
Charon QC, 5th July 2012
Source: www.charonqc.wordpress.com
“Charon QC” is the blogging pseudonym of Mike Semple Piggot, editor of insitelaw newswire.
“‘To let’ advertisements that specify a particular race or religion are visible in newsagents windows in many areas of London. But are they breaking the law?”
BBC News, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Camden London Borough Council v Stafford [2012] EWCA Civ 839; [2012] WLR (D) 184
“A notice under section 128 of the Housing Act 1996 seeking an order for possession of a dwelling let under an introductory tenancy could not be conditional. Similarly a review of that decision under section 129 could not introduce conditions. Thus a review notice purporting to confirm the original decision to seek possession but not pursuing possession because alternatives were put in place did not confirm the original decision. If the landlord subsequently sought possession a fresh notice under section 128 would have to be served.”
WLR Daily, 20th June 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Home Office has released its Statement of Intent on Family Migration, which, amongst other things, makes the position a little clearer on its plans for Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, as discussed in my earlier post.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 13th June 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Multi-million pound plans to regenerate historic Crystal Palace Park were upheld by the High Court today.”
The Independent, 12th June 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“It’s a scene which will be familiar to many housing law practitioners: a tenant turns up to a possession hearing, seeks representation from the duty solicitor, seeks to argue that there are issues of disability discrimination and human rights issues which make it necessary for proceedings to be adjourned, detailed directions to be given and a lengthy wait before arguments on the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights Act 1998 can be thrashed out in depth at a possession hearing.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 31st May 2012
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“A High Court judge has ruled that plans to develop the former home of Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ‘must be quashed.’ ”
BBC News, 30th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Local Government Law Update: 21 May (PDF)
Local Government Law Update: 22 May (PDF)
11 KBW, May 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“Although the legislation did not lay down the criteria of special circumstances in relation to priority need for housing homeless persons, a separated parent’s reasonable expectation that his children, who were living with their other parent, would move to live with him did not impose an obligation on the local housing authority to consider the parent’s case as special circumstances case for priority needs. Where an applicant for housing was represented by solicitors the failure of the authority expressly to notify the solicitor so that they could make representations in connection with the review did not invalidate the decision of the review officer to uphold the authority’s decision rejecting an application for priority need housing.”
WLR Daily, 18th May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Maswaku v Westminster City Council [2012] EWCA Civ 669; [2012] WLR (D) 153
“Section 193(5) of the Housing Act 1996 did not impose any statutory obligation on the local housing authority to spell out each and every possible consequence if an eligible homeless applicant refused temporary alternative accommodation offered which the authority considered to be suitable for him.”
WLR Daily, 18th May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The statutory criteria for calculating housing benefit for tenants in the private rented sector based on an entitlement to a one bedroom rate discriminated against the severely disabled and there was no justification in their case for continuation of the single bedroom rules.”
WLR Daily, 15th May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Tim Baldwin summarises a recent noteworthy High Court decision on housing and support for a terminally ill individual.”
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 21st May 2012
Source www.gclaw.wordpress.com
“In the same week that the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan-Smith, announced his intention to implement sweeping reforms of the current system of disability benefits, the Court of Appeal has ruled that housing benefit rules were discriminatory against disabled people, in breach of Article 14 read with Article 1 Protocol 1 of the European Convention.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th May 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Desmond Rutledge explains a landmark Court of Appeal decision upholding the rights of the severely disabled.”
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 15th May 2012
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
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