Free Webinar – How Does the Main Housing Duty Come to an End? A Discussion of R (Bano) v Waltham Forest

The Supreme Court has delivered its judgment in Bano v Waltham Forest [2026] UKSC 22, confirming how local authorities must lawfully bring the main housing duty owed to homeless applicants to an end. Hear from the barristers who represented Ms Bano, as they discuss the judgment and its implications.

Tim Baldwin, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers (Chair)
Tim Baldwin is ranked in Chambers UK for Social Housing, Community Care, and Civil Liberties and Human Rights and is also identified as a leading junior in the Legal 500 for Social Housing, Court of Protection and Community Care, and Administrative Law and Human Rights. Tim’s practice concerns all aspects social housing working including possession, disrepair and housing standards work, homelessness, allocation of social housing, community care including migrant support. Tim’s practice in housing and homelessness is largely in the High Court or Appellate courts or in complex specialist proceedings in the County Court. He is also Co-Chair of the Housing Law Practitioners’ Association (HLPA), and aa member of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) advisory panel.

Liz Davies KC, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers 
Liz Davies KC specialises in all aspects of housing law, with a particular expertise in homelessness and allocation of social housing. She also practises in areas of community care and Children Act cases, particularly where accommodation might be an issue. Liz is the co-author of Housing Allocation and Homelessness (Luba, Davies, Johnston & Buchanan, LexisNexis, 6th ed, 2022). Liz acts as a consultant to the homelessness charity Crisis, and assisted in drafting the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, amendments to the Domestic Abuse Bill relating to homelessness and Crisis’ draft legislation Homelessness and the Prevention of Homelessness (Covid-19 Response) Bill. Liz has also given evidence to the House of Commons Housing Communities and Local Government Select Committee on homelessness and the effect of Covid 19. She acted as consultant to the Renters’ Rights Coalition during the progress of the Bill. As a junior barrister, Liz was ranked as a “Star Individual” in social housing by Chambers UK and as a leading individual in social housing (Tier 1) by the Legal 500. She is ranked as a leading silk in social housing by the Legal 500 (Band 1) and social housing silks (Band 2) in Chambers and Partners.

Adrian Marshall Williams, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers
Adrian practices across the range of housing and property law. His practice encompasses many types of possession claims. He has wide-ranging experience in cases involving mental health or capacity issues and being instructed by the Official Solicitor on behalf of protected parties. Adrian’s work in housing law has a significant focus on acting for occupiers in complicated anti-social behaviour cases, and raising public law defences as well as tenancy deposit scheme cases, succession cases, mortgage possession proceedings and claims under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996.

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