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Housing | Friday 23 September 2016
Concurrent criminal and committal proceedings
Gill v Birmingham City Council [2016] EWCA Civ 608, [2016] HLR 29, 28 June 2016. The appellant, Mr Gill, had been committed to prison for a term of 14 months and 23 days having been found, following a contested trial, to have breached the provisions of
Housing | Friday 23 September 2016
Possession claim against a vulnerable trespasser: Article 8, alternative remedies and relief from sanctions
R (Plant) v Somerset CC and Taunton Deane Borough Council [2016] EWHC 1245 (Admin), [2016] HLR 24, 26 May 2016.
Housing | Wednesday 31 August 2016
Allocations Part 3: succession
R (Jack Jones) v Luton Borough Council [2016] EWHC 2036 (Admin), 3 August 2016. In May 2015, JJ’s father passed away. Luton swiftly served a notice to quit bringing the subsisting contractual tenancy to an end. JJ then applied to Luton for a tenancy of
Housing | Tuesday 30 August 2016
Allocations Part 2: the welfare of the child
R (Woolfe) v Islington London Borough Council [2016] EWHC 1907 (Admin), 15 July 2016. Ms Woolfe lived with her baby daughter in a studio provided by Islington, as a homeless person. Shortly after applying to Islington as homeless, Ms Woolfe also applie
Housing | Tuesday 30 August 2016
Allocations Part 1: spent convictions and care leavers
R (YA) v Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council [2016] EWHC 1850 (Admin), 27 July 2016. The claimant, YA, was a young person who had spent a number of years in the care of the defendant, Hammersmith and Fulham LBC. Between the ages of 12 and 15
Housing | Friday 15 July 2016
When to suspend a possession order
City West Housing Trust v Lindsey Massey, Manchester and District Housing Association v Roberts [2016] EWCA Civ 704, 7 July 2016
Housing | Friday 15 July 2016
Duty to accept repeat homeless application
R (H) v London Borough of Southwark [2016] EWHC 1665 (Admin), 8 July 2016
Housing | Friday 15 July 2016
Whether lengthy period in temporary accommodation is ‘settled accommodation’
Huda v London Borough of Redbridge [2016] EWCA Civ 709, 12 July 2016
