27 January, 2014
27 January, 2014
Garden Court Chambers reports on case where local authority argued that defendant couldn't succeed to tenancy because hadn't been open about same sex relationship with partner before his death, but Judge held that local authority had failed to show the required delicacy and sensitivity that such a case required.
27 January, 2014
Criteria include expectation that housing providers build more one and two bedroom properties in areas where tenants are underoccupying to assist with bedroom tax implementation.
23 January, 2014
New statutory rule gives effect to landlord registration scheme including functions and responsibilities of scheme registrar and information which landlord must provide to registrar in order to register and continue to be registered.
21 January, 2014
Local Government Ombudsman urges councils to consider importance of complying with the Water Resale Order by clearly explaining to tenants how it calculates their water rates when it demands payment.
20 January, 2014
Issue 340 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.
16 January, 2014
16 January, 2014
New IPPR reports calls on local authorities to make better use of powers, such as the use of selective licensing, improvement notices, hazard awareness orders and demolition orders.
15 January, 2014
New Communities and Local Government Committee report commends Ombudsman for 'concerted effort to improve and become more accountable, efficient and transparent' but also recommends improvements including external review of new processes and case-handling targets.
15 January, 2014
New research finds that one in five has borrowed money to pay rent or mortgage and two per cent have taken out payday loan.
14 January, 2014
December update, as published in the Legal Action Magazine, now available from the Garden Court Chambers website.
13 January, 2014
New statutory instrument sets out the form of notices required to implement the conversion of ultra-long leases to ownership under the Long Leases (Scotland) Act 2012.
13 January, 2014
New statutory instrument specifies period during which applications to the Court of Session, sheriff court, or Lands Tribunal have to be made for notices to be registrable following a rejection by the Keeper as eight weeks.
13 January, 2014
New statutory instrument brings into force the remainder of the Mobile Homes (Wales) Act 2013 in two stages and also makes transitional and saving provisions under the Act.
13 January, 2014
New statutory instrument sets out detail of new procedure for making site rules, and new requirements with which site rules must comply, under provisions inserted into the Mobile Homes Act 1983 by the Mobile Homes Act 2013.
10 January, 2014
New report from Dying Matters, the National Council for Palliative Care and the National Bereavement Alliance also highlights concerns re impact of bedroom tax on those who have been bereaved.
10 January, 2014
Problems experienced by G4S and Serco, have resulted in poor performance, delays and additional costs for the Home Office.
9 January, 2014
Government agrees to drop Clause 13 of Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill as the tenure-neutral IPNA (injunction to prevent nuisance and annoyance) - being introduced in Clause 1 - 'can do everything a tenancy injunction can do'.
8 January, 2014
Andrew Arden QC and Robert Brown are concerned that every substantive proposal put forward in October 2013's consultation paper has been adopted in the guidance.
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