Bedroom tax JR
The headline here, as has been widely tweeted/flashed etc, is that the challenge to the bedroom tax contained in Regulation B13, Housing Benefit Regulations (both generically and specifically in...
View ArticleUrgent appeals in warrant suspension cases
We’ve all been there. Perhaps more frequently, litigants in person have been there (although hopefully not the same LiP over and over again). A warrant for possession is due to be executed the next...
View ArticleMaking it clear
Keeney Construction Ltd v Dr Zoe Brooke and others [2013] UKUT 329 (LC) is an odd little case (an opening phrase I tend to use a lot when talking about UT appeals). The substantive issue concerned a...
View ArticleA timely little reminder
Barney v Eastern Green Ltd [2013] UKUT 331 (LC) is a helpful little reminder of the (limited) power of the LVT (FTT(PC)) to review apportionment issues in service charges. In the present case, the...
View ArticleRICS Service Charge Code: consultation
By s.87, Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, the Secretary of State has power to approve codes of practice in relation to the management of residential long leasehold blocks....
View ArticleTime isn’t on your side
as the Rolling Stones didn’t quite say. In Re: Anna Christie [2013] UKUT 327 (LC), the Upper Tribunal was faced with an application for permission to appeal out of time. The appellant was the long...
View ArticleHuman Rights Round-up
3 cases have recently been decided by the ECtHR ChamberBusuioc v Republic of Moldova [2013] ECHR 684 (16/7/13)The Applicant (B) complained to the Court under Arts 3 and 8 ECHR about the State’s failure...
View ArticleDog whistles
The DCLG has trumpeted a new Guide on Council and Police powers on ‘Dealing with illegal and unauthorised encampments’.A new guide will give more power and a stronger voice to local residents and...
View ArticleEnding it all. Or not.
A question on tenant’s notice to quit, to keep minds occupied during the silly season.Fareham BC v Miller [2013] EWCA Civ 159. (our report here) states in no uncertain terms that the common law...
View ArticleBetter Late than Never?
Peake v LB Hackney [not yet on Bailii] is another cautionary tale about the importance of lodging statutory homelessness appeals within the 21 day limit.Ms P was found intentionally homeless by the...
View ArticleA broader view
I can’t speak for the other NL writers, but one of the things I sometimes struggle with is making sure that I see housing law in its full context, by which I (think I) mean, making sure that I make...
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On the Naughty Step – It is always the academics you have to watch
Ah well, that is a career as a barrister over almost as soon as it had nearly begun. On the whole, it is best not to be found guilty of fraud for an illegal sub-let and fraudulently obtaining a council...
View ArticleIt wasn’t me.
Lee v Lasrado [2013] EWHC 2302 (QB)On the whole, trying to appeal an unlawful eviction judgment and quantum decision against you on the basis that you are not actually the landlord is not an approach...
View ArticleThe Master across the water
Santander (UK) Plc v McAtamney and other cases [2013] NIMaster 15 is, as the neutral citation should reveal, a case from Northern Ireland, decided by a Chancery Master. It is not, therefore, a binding...
View ArticleFlats less risky
At least less risky for property investors. That is the basis of the Upper Tribunal’s decision in Voyvoda v Grosvenor West End Properties, which we have managed to miss reporting because of the Summer...
View ArticleShelter and shared ownership
I want to put this post in context:(a) I write this post for myself and do not necessarily speak on behalf of the other NL writers.(b) I have enormous respect for Shelter. I have friends who work...
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Of bedrooms that aren’t
Here is a First Tier Tribunal decision on a bedroom tax appeal that overturns the landlord’s assertions on bedroom numbers. It is a Scottish case, but nothing turns on that. I’m grateful to Joe...
View ArticleOn disappearing bedrooms
This is a rather speculative post, but things have become interesting on the bedroom tax.We reported on one Fife First Tier Tribunal here. There have been another four decisions by the same Tribunal,...
View ArticleBedroom Tax. Five Fife decisions
Just a quick note to mention that Inside Housing has a summary of the five Fife bedroom tax First Tier Tribunal decisions (and try saying that quickly), together with copies of the Tribunal judgments...
View ArticleIt cost you how much?
Law can be expensive.This is particularly so in relation to the process of law, i.e. the costs of going to the law. By this I mean things such as the court or tribunal fees, but particularly the costs...
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