The Court of Appeal considered the appeal in the case of Rogerson v Bolsover District Council (2019) EWCA Civ 226 which concerned a landlord’s duty pursuant to s4 Defective Premises Act 1972 and whether ... Continue Reading
Homelessness: guidance on out-of-borough placements (Alibkhiet v London Borough of Brent v City of Westminster [2018])
This was an appeal heard jointly with the case of Adam v City of Westminster whereby t... Continue Reading
Homelessness and the need to consider a “foreseeable future” (Safi v Sandwell Borough Council [2018] EWCA Civ 2876)
In Safi the court of appeal took efforts to clarify what information was relevant and... Continue Reading
[2019] EWHC 24 (QB)
QBD (Cheema-Grubb J) 11/01/2019
The High Court dismissed an appeal against a possession order granted by the County Court, finding that although the court had failed to properly conside... Continue Reading
Powell v Dacorum BC – no breach of the PSED at the warrant stage when it was not raised in the possession proceedings
[2019] EWCA Civ 23
This case involved arguments raised at the warrant stage of allege... Continue Reading
This is the question considered by the High Court in the case of London Borough of Haringey v Simawi & Anor (2018) EWHC 2733.
s87 and s88 Housing Act 1985 (in force at the relevant time) provided tha... Continue Reading
In the recent case of Re S (Child as parent: Adoption: Consent) [2017] EWHC 2729 (Fam), Cobb J provided guidance as to how the court should assess the competence of a child parent when it comes to the iss... Continue Reading
Rebecca Cross was instructed to provide an independent review of several public law children’s cases where Trimega Laboratories Limited were instructed to provide forensic toxicology test results which w... Continue Reading
The recent decision in Gill & Gill v Kassam (HHJ Worster, Birmingham County Court, 13 August 2018) has aroused considerable interest.
In this article, Michael Singleton discusses the outcome of this c... Continue Reading
The Court of appeal gave judgment in this disability discrimination in housing case last week which is worthy of note for housing practitioners. The crux of the decision was that where a court had found th... Continue Reading
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