See also our list of reported and notable housing law cases which and links to housing news stories providing additional commentary and judgments.

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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Housing news stories

1/2/12 Sale and leaseback (NEPB) Court of Appeal latest

16/11/10 Ben McCormack to speak at The HLPA Conference 2011

21/10/11 Phil McLeish joins chambers

18/10/11 Are squatting reform proposals causing confusion?

31/3/11 Makisi (Homelessness - oral representations) judgment

20/12/10 Permission to appeal in sale and leaseback cases

3/11/10 Pinnock judgment

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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