Issue 35. Housing Law Bulletin March 2013

• Accept Track Changes?
• 1/4/13 changes to CPR affecting damages only disrepair and other damages claims
• A recap on issuing "protective" proceedings
• Disrepair claims - submitting them urgently if likely to be out of funding scope post-LASPO

Issue 34. Housing Law Bulletin January / February 2013

• Some thoughts on expert evidence within injunction proceedings - Pender v Director of Public Prosecutions [2013] All ER (D) 173 (Jan)
• Basic principles
• Just how far, and about what, does the Defendant's understanding have to extend?
• Is the likelihood of a breach of an order a reason not to make one?
• Value of evidence about addiction?

GCN quick guide to LASPO 2012 for housing law : December 2012

• A summary of the main provisions of LASPO 2012 and related regulations for housing law by GCN pupil Marian Cleghorn

Issue 33. Housing Law Bulletin October 2012

• Proportionality requires consideration of the position at the hearing (Southend on Sea v Armour [2012])
• Homelessness â?? Private Sector Offers and Suitability (Commencement orders for provisions in Sections 148 and 149 Localism Act 2012 - Section 193(2) duties to come into force 9th November 2012)

Issue 32. Housing Law Bulletin May 2012

• High Test for Judicial Review of Refusal of Permission to Appeal
• Sharing, R (on the application of) v Preston County Court [2012] EWHC 515 (Admin)

This edition was first published as a case commentary for Lexis Nexis Current Awareness and reproduced by GCN with kind permission here

Issue 31. Housing Law Bulletin March 2012

• Possession Proceedings and Article 8 - Don't Panic
• Corby BC v Scott and West Kent HA v Haycraft [2012] EWCA 276
• Riverside Group Ltd v Thomas [2012] EWHC 169

Issue 30. Housing Law Bulletin February 2012

• Going home after a lawful eviction. A look at the steps that can be taken to reinstate a tenant to their home after execution of a warrant for possession has taken place:
• Setting aside the possession order or the warrant
• Abuse of process
• Oppression
• Appealing refusal to suspend a warrant

Issue 29. Housing Law Bulletin January 2012

• Have you got an authority for that?

Issue 28. Housing Law Bulletin December 2011

• Comparing Apples and Oranges - How to get an Article 8 case past the first hearing

Issue 27. Housing Law Bulletin November 2011

• Minded to letters (Mitu v Camden LBC)
• Oops! (starter tenancies) (Saxon Weald Homes Ltd v Chadwick)

Issue 26. Housing Law Bulletin February 2011

• Pinnock, Proportionality and Practice (Powell)

Issue 25. Housing Law Bulletin November 2010

• Manchester City Council v Pinnock

Issue 24. Housing Law Bulletin June 2010

• Lambeth LBC v Emeter (Renewed Permission Hearing)
• Brookes v SSWP and the Child Maintenance Enforcement Commission
• Beedles v Guinness Northern Counties

Issue 23. Housing Law Bulletin March 2010

• Draycott and Draycott v Hannells Letting Ltd
• Barber v Croydon LBC

Issue 22. Housing Law Bulletin November 2009

• First possession hearings are NOT subject to CPR 39.3 when setting aside is sought (Forcelux Ltd v Binnie)

Issue 21. Housing Law Bulletin July 2009

• Public law defences to possession claims: latest developments (Central Bedfordshire DC v Taylor)
• RSL is a "hybrid public authority" - meaning it is a public body under the Human Rights Act (London & Quadrant Housing Trust v Weaver)

Issue 20. Housing Law Bulletin May 2009

• Tolerated Trespassers - Goodbye and Good Riddance!

Issue 19. Housing Law Bulletin July 2008

• The death of the Disability Discrimination Act? (Malcolm)
• Homelessness ( Lambeth v Johnston)
• Women's Refuges (Manchester CC v Moran)

Issue 18. Housing Law Bulletin May 2008

• Landmark Article 8 decision in housing case (McCann v UK)

Issue 17. Housing Law Bulletin February 2008

• Homelessness - discharge of section 193 duties; allocations; determining priorities (Birmingham CC v Aweys and others)
• Part VII allocations - eligibility; drug use (R (Dixon) v Wandsworth LBC)
• Possession claims - criminal convictions; court's discretion (Sandwell MBC v Hensley)

Issue 16. Housing Law Bulletin January 2008

• "Entrenched tolerated trespassers" (Helena Housing v Mower & Molyneux)

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28/4/10 Starter Tenancies and Public Law Defences

18/5/09 The end of the Tolerated Trespasser?

25/11/08 LALY finalist (Ben McCormack)

6/10/08 James Stark to speak at December 2008 HLPA conference

22/5/08 Applications for Anti Social Behaviour Orders under Section 1B Crime and Disorder Act 1998 struck out

20/11/05 GCN in "ASBOS on Trial" : BBC Panorama

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