The Latest Housing Law News Right to buy: the Government has launched a consultation on the detailed implementation of its recent proposals to stimulate the right to buy for tenants of social housing by an increase in discounts and one- for-one replacement of associated sales with affordable rented homes. For the consultation paper, click here. […]
News Matthew Coats the current interim head of the Border Force at the UKBA is to take over as chief executive of the Legal Services Commission in February. Click here to read the LSC’s press release. Cases Tomasz Ziolkowski (C-424/10) v Land Berlin21 December 2011A union citizen, who has been resident for more than five […]
News The new fees regime for applications to appeal to the First-Tier Tribunal (IAC) came into force on the 19th December 2011. Click here for more information. Cases HM (Iraq) & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 153613th December 2011A country guidance determination of the Upper Tribunal (IAC) has […]
Stephen Knafler QC and Tim Baldwin advise MIND as to the consequences of the Health and Social Care Bill to provision of aftercare under the Mental Health Act 1983.
*** LAST ISSUE OF 2011 *** THE HOUSING LAW BULLETIN IS WRITTEN BY JAN LUBA QC HE WISHES ALL READERS A HAPPY CHRISTMAS THE NEXT ISSUE WILL BE DISTRIBUTED EARLY IN THE NEW YEAR The Latest Housing Law News Under-occupation of Social Housing: on 14 December 2011 the House of Lords passed an amendment to […]
Stephen Simblet has successfully represented a protestor, obtaining damages in excess of £14,000 in the High Court, after she suffered injuries at the hands of the police.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has no power to recoup Social Fund loans or overpayments by deductions from existing awards of benefits where the claimant is subject to a debt relief order and that the same pr
Employment News UK tops long hours league New figures from UK National Statistics suggests that the average working week for UK office workers is 43 hours per week, the second highest in Europe, including an average of 1.2 hours of unpaid work per day. For more, click here. Unilever in pensions dispute Unilever, the company […]
The Latest Housing Law News Homelessness in England: on 8 December 2011 the latest official data on homelessness applications to local housing authorities in England was published. It shows that 12,510 applicants were accepted as owed a main housing duty during July to September 2011, 6% higher than during the same quarter of 2010. On […]
News It is understood that a panel of judges of the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR has refused the UK government’s request to refer the Chamber judgment in Sufi & Elmi v UK [2011] ECHR 1045 for re-examination by the Grand Chamber. Accordingly the Chamber judgment has become final under ECHR, Art 44(2)(c). For chamber […]
Stephen Knafler QC and David Renton represented activists on Wednesday in their application to set aside a possession order granted in favour of Sun Street Property Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the UBS Bank.
The Latest Housing Law News Housing Facts & Figures: on 30 November 2011 the UK Government released the latest statistics on council housing in England. They indicate that 87% of councils now use choice-based letting schemes and that 1.84m people are on housing waiting lists. Last year, councils evicted 6000 tenants and made 146,400 lettings. […]
Cases MA & Ors, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 14461st December 2011The Court of Appeal made a reference to the European Court of Justice concerning the question of which Member State was responsible for determining an application for asylum under Regulation 343/2003 art.6, where […]
Stephen Knafler QC, Kathryn Cronin and Bryony Poynor have succeeded in obtaining a reference to the CJEU, from the Court of Appeal, on the question of whether unaccompanied minor asylum seekers can ever be removed under Dublin II to the Dublin State where
Employment News Government plans to transform Tribunal system revealed More than seven months after the consultation on "Resolving Working Disputes" closed, the government has published its response to the consultation, at the same time widening the range of measures which it proposed to introduce. It is a total package of changes, which, if successfully implemented, […]
Cases Boktor and Wanis (late application for permission) Egypt [2011] UKUT 442 (IAC) (22 November 2011)The Upper Tribunal noted that where permission to appeal to the Upper Tribunal has been granted, without the decision maker noticing that the application is out of time, and any explanation for lateness is not considered by the judge granting […]
The Latest Housing Law News The new national housing strategy for England: on 21 November 2011 the UK Government published its new National Housing Strategy for England: Laying the Foundations. The strategy deals with social housing allocation and tenure in Chapter 3 and with the private rented sector in Chapter 4. For the Government’s press […]
Michael Paget has been instructed to represent Occupy London demonstrators who have been camped outside the London Stock Exchange since October and are fighting eviction
Stephen Knafler QC appeared for Ms Cassandra Bubb in the case of Bubb v Wandsworth LBC [2011] EWCA Civ 1285.
On 16th November 2011 a planning inspector granted 3 families permanent planning permission for the use of land known as Woodside Caravan Park in Hatch, Bedfordshire as a small Gypsy site. In doing so he brought to finality to a planning saga that has las
